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Tracing the spatial patterns of innovation determinants in regional economic performance
Olejnik, Alicja; Żółtaszek, Agata - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 4, pp. 87-108
In this paper, we investigate innovation factors and their role in regional economic performance for a sample of 261 EU NUTS 2 regions over the period 2009-2012. In our study, we identify regions with spillover as well as drain effects of innovation factors on economic performance. The spatial...
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Industry-wide work rules and productivity : evidence from Argentine union contract data
Lamarche, Carlos - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-25
In the early 1990’s, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide collective bargaining system, which sets working conditions for all firms in an industry. This...
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Distribution of budget shares for food : an application of quantile regression to food security
Moss, Charles B.; Oehmke, James F.; Lyambabaje, Alexandre; … - In: Econometrics : open access journal 4 (2016) 2, pp. 1-12
This study examines, using quantile regression, the linkage between food security andefforts to enhance smallholder coffee producer incomes in Rwanda. Even though in Rwanda smallholder coffee producer incomes have increased, inhabitants these areas still experience stunting and wasting. This...
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Verdoorn-Kaldor’s law : an empirical analysis with time series data in the United States
Castiglione, Concetta - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 3, pp. 135-151
growth rate of output, usually for the manufacturing sector. Since the sixties this relationship has been examined in a large … series analysis and formulates the law in terms of cointegration and Granger-causality between manufacturing output and … manufacturing production and labour productivity are variables that are integrated of order (1,1), and are also cointegrated. The …
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Global FDI inflow and its implication across economic income groups
Joshua, Udi; Rotimi, Mathew Ekundayo; Sarkodie, Samuel … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 13 (2020) 11/291, pp. 1-15
Foreign direct investment (FDI) as a driver of growth is important in today´s globalized economy. It is extremely difficult for economies to grow sustainably without economic interactions outside their borders. However, there has been a debate on the impact of FDI inflow on economic expansion....
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Micro data on robots from the IAB Establishment Panel
Plümpe, Verena; Stegmaier, Jens - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 243 (2023) 3/4, pp. 397-413
Micro-data on robots have been very sparse in Germany so far. Consequently, a dedicated section has been introduced in the IAB Establishment Panel 2019 that includes questions on the number and type of robots used. This article describes the background and development of the survey questions,...
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Manufacturing sector development in Sub-Saharan Africa : does monetary policy matter?
Agbonrofo, Hope E.; Olusegun, Ajibola - In: International journal of management, economics and … 12 (2023) 2, pp. 133-161
This study investigated the effect of monetary policy on the manufacturing sector value added in 24 sub-Saharan African … (SSA) countries. The study is motivated by the persistent state of underdevelopment of the manufacturing sector in the … manufacturing value added in the long-run only credit to the private sector had no real impact on manufacturing value added in the …
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Determinants of entrepreneurial capability (EC) environment in ASEAN-05 economies : a log-linear stochastic frontier analysis
Munshi Naser Ibne Afzal; Siddiqui, Shamim Ahmad; Dutta, … - In: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research : JGER 8 (2018) 14, pp. 1-14
The primary driver of this study is to find out key indicators of Entrepreneurial Capability milieu and test these components empirically in the Association with South East Asian Nations-05 economies. The purpose of this study is twofold. Firstly, it attempts to understand the determinants of...
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Foreign ownership as a neglected factor in regions' smart specialisation exports
Nazarczuk, Jarosław Michał; Umiński, Stanisław; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 21 (2020) 3, pp. 826-850
A region can internationalise in various ways. The question is what type of internationalisation at regional level can be regarded as "smart" and what role should be played in it by foreign owned entities (FOEs)? The paper aims at identifying the role played by FOEs in NUTS-2 smart...
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What do tests of the relationship between employment and technical progress hide?
Felipe, Jesus; Bajaro, Donna Faye; Estrada, Gemma; … - In: PSL quarterly review 73 (2021) 295, pp. 367-392
The debate about whether technical progress causes technological unemployment, as the Luddites argued in the early 19th century, has recently resurfaced in the context of new technologies and automation and the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution. We review the main issues and then consider...
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