On average establishment size across sectors and countries

R&d Expenditure across Countries and Sectors

R&D activities are often considered as being a main driver of economic development, innovation and growth. They comprise creative work undertaken systematically with a view to increasing the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications (Eurostat, 2008: 30). Today innovation performance is a crucial determi...

The Effect of Location Based Tax Incentives on Establishment Location and Employment Across Industry Sectors

This paper examines the potential for location-based employment tax incentives to have a differential effect on establishment location and employment across industry sectors. We model the differential effect of the location-based federal Empowerment Zone (EZ) wage tax credit on equilibrium labor and total cost savings across industry sectors. The model guides our empirical work, as we test the ...

Common and idiosyncratic shocks to labor productivity across sectors and countries: Is climate relevant?

We use two methodologies, the least square dummy variables approach and the dynamic factor models, to decompose the labor productivity growth rate for a large sample of countries into common, i.e. global, and idiosyncratic, i.e. country, components. We find that country specific effects are much more important than common effects in explaining labor productivity. The interesting result is that,...

Perspectives on Resilience to Disasters across Sectors and Cultures

We present some insights on the use and interpretation of resilience ideas that arose in a conference on “Society’s Resilience in Withstanding Disaster.” Three points in particular have relevance for those interested in resilience in social-ecological systems: (1) Time as a threshold vs. avoiding quick fixes; (2) Trading risks: specified vs. general resilience; (3) Response origination: buildin...

Prevalence of hepatitis A across various countries in the Middle East, African and Eastern European countries