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Individual Preferences, Organization, and Competition in a Model of R&D Incentive Provision
Lacetera, Nicola; Zirulia, Lorenzo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Understanding the organization of R&D activities requires the simultaneous consideration of scientific workers' talent and tastes, companies' organizational choices, and the characteristics of the relevant industry. We develop a model of the provision of incentives to corporate scientists, in an...
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The Acquisition and Commercialization of Invention in American Manufacturing: Incidence and Impact
Arora, Ashish; Cohen, Wesley M.; Walsh, John P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Recent accounts suggest the development and commercialization of invention has become more "open." Greater division of labor between inventors and innovators can enhance social welfare through gains from trade and greater economies of specialization. Moreover, this extensive reliance upon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951285
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Can population promote income per-capita growth? A balanced perspective
Tournemaine, Frederic - In: Economics Bulletin 15 (2007) 8, pp. 1-7
We develop a model in which technical progress, human capital and population interact endogenously to examine the impact of population growth on economic development. We find that population growth can be positively or negatively correlated with the growth rate of income per-capita. The outcome...
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Education, growth and technology diffusion
Heinrich, Tobias - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 866-870
-country datasets. The empirical results give evidence that all types of education are important for TFP growth and that there is an … interaction between education and the distance to the technology frontier. However, the analysis of sub samples of the data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278861
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Can population promote income per-capita growth? A balanced perspective
Tournemaine, Frederic - In: Economics Bulletin 15 (2007) 8, pp. 1-7
We develop a model in which technical progress, human capital and population interact endogenously to examine the impact of population growth on economic development. We find that population growth can be positively or negatively correlated with the growth rate of income per-capita. The outcome...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196423
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Gender Based Differences in Managerial Experience: The Case of Informal Firms in Rwanda
Kushnir, Khrystyna; Amin, Mohammad - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 4, pp. 3032-3049
The paper contributes to the literature on gender-based disparity in human capital by extending existing results on educational attainment to the number of years of experience that female vs. male managers have among informal or unregistered firms. Using the case of Rwanda, results show that the...
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An Empirical Illustration of Positive Stigma towards Child Labor
Patrinos, Harry A; Shafiq, Najeeb - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 1, pp. 799-807
This empirical note complements the qualitative and theoretical research on positive household stigma towards child labor. We use data from Guatemala and two instruments for measuring stigma: a child's indigenous background and household head's childhood work experience. We then adopt binomial...
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Impact of education on the shadow economy: Institutions matter
Buehn, Andreas; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 3, pp. 2052-2063
Using panel data for more than 80 countries from 1999-2007 this paper studies the marginal effect of education on the … shadow economy, particularly considering the quality of institutions. The results show that higher levels of education fuel …
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The Impact of Educational Attainment and Gender on the Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff
Mazumder, Sandeep - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 2, pp. 651-662
for the level of education allows for superior estimation of group-specific Phillips curves. In this paper we consider … economies. We find that the education-adjusted unemployment gap does little to help estimate the inflation-unemployment tradeoff …
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Half a Century of Public Software Institutions: Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem
Schwarz, Michael; Takhteyev, Yuri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not been described in the literature: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012917