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When will reducing trade barriers against a low wage country cause innovation to increase in high wage regions like the … cost of innovating falls. Interestingly, the "China shock" is more likely to induce innovation than liberalization with … be faster long-run growth through innovation in the US and that, in the short run, this is magnified by the trapped …
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effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for the endogeneity of innovation. This is the case for three different … count measures of innovation - a global measure of innovation and measures for labour innovations and capital innovations …
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efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …
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due to a weakness in technological innovation despite a high quality science base. This includes comparatively low and …
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A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making …
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creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …
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Employees exposed to high involvement management (HIM) practices have higher subjective wellbeing, fewer accidents but more short absence spells than "like" employees not exposed to HIM. These results are robust to extensive work, wage and sickness absence history controls. We present a model...
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This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort, combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with the analysis of multi-country ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others' incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The...
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Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we show that over the last quarter century union voice - especially union-only voice - has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and poorer labour productivity than nonunion voice and,...
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In this paper we treat workplace voice and systems of high-commitment human resource management (HCHRM) as technological innovations in order to account for the uneven diffusion patterns observed across establishments. Using British data, the paper finds that variables highlighted in the...
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