This paper analyzes labor demand at the sector level in the U.S., Germany and Sweden in two ways: by providing new computations of the sector elasticity of labor demand, and by evaluating the employment effects of trade in manufactures, services, agriculture and fuel. The elasticity is computed...

This paper investigates the channels through which macroeconomic volatility prevents or hinders innovative investment undertakings financed by the domestic business sector. The analysis is based on a sample of 48 countries, representing all levels of development, and uses various measures of...

This paper investigates the channels through which macroeconomic volatility prevents or hinders innovative investment undertakings financed by the domestic business sector. The analysis is based on a sample of 48 countries, representing all levels of development, and uses various measures of...

This paper investigates the channels through which macroeconomic and institutional instability prevents or hinders innovative investment undertakings financed by the domestic private sector. The analysis is based on a sample of 44 countries representing all levels of development and considers a...

This paper investigates the channels through which macroeconomic and institutional instability prevents or hinders innovative investment undertakings financed by the domestic private sector. The analysis is based on a sample of 44 countries representing all levels of development and considers a...

Dans ce papier, on se propose d’étudier la relation entre la coopération en R&D et la croissance économique. Nous essayerons d’apporter quelques éclairages théoriques sur les relations de coopération technologique en s’intéressant à l’émergence de la coopération entant que...

Extant literature indicates that technology, and by implication its underlying knowledge base, determines long-run economic performance. Absent from the literature with respect to developing countries are quantitative assessments of the nexus between technology as knowledge and economic...

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between private and public investment in R&D. Various models proposed in the literature to take account for several instruments policies as: (subsidies, taxes…) are estimated to verify if private and public R&D spending are complement or...