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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gerard - 2010
-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …
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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call 'the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329079
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Innovative slowdown, productivity reversal? - Estimating the impact of R&D on technological change
Lang, Günter - 2002
Motivated by the recent reversal in labor productivity growth, this paper is analyzing the relationship between R&D expenditures and productivity. Time series data of the German manufacturing industry is used to estimate a variable cost function, with the stock of knowledge being modeled as a...
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In-house R&D, technology transfer, and firms' performance
2023
This study examines the individual and joint impact of technology transfer and in-house R&D on firms' productivity and export performance. We utilize a specially designed survey module on firms' technology competitiveness in Vietnamese manufacturing, which allows us to identify various forms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540439
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Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catchup
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010
and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. …
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Redistribution and occupational choice in a Schumpeterian growth model
Garcίa-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Wen, Jean-François - 2004
We consider an R&D-driven endogenous growth model in which innovation is risky and agents are risk averse. Growth is … social insurance, thus encouraging innovation and accelerating growth. The general equilibrium effects of the reallocation of …
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Unions, Collective Bargaining and Firm Performance
Laroche, Patrice - 2020
The impact of unions on firm performance has been the subject of debate and controversy in most industrialized countries, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. The purpose of this chapter is to review and assess the scope and limitations of the economic analysis of unions as...
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Cognitive Performance in the Home Office - Evidence from Professional Chess
Künn, Steffen; Seel, Christian; Zegners, Dainis - 2020
During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, traditional (offline) chess tournaments were prohibited and instead held online. We exploit this as a unique setting to assess the impact of moving offline tasks online on the cognitive performance of individuals. We use the Artificial Intelligence embodied...
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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014
An increasingly influential technological-discontinuity paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited...
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Competitive Economic Performance: USA versus EU
Aiginger, Karl; Landesmann, Michael - 2002
processes of innovation and diffusion of a general purpose technology (GPT) take place. There is also an analysis of the …
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