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statistically significant evidence of the expected labor-friendly nature of innovation. More in detail, neither R&D nor investment …
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Using a unique firm-level database comprising the top European R&D investors over the period 2002-2013 and running LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labour-friendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment effect appears limited in magnitude and entirely due to...
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This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …
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innovation, trying to map - using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - the concrete ways through which a … into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technological … transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of sectoral …
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Innovation Survey covering the period 1998-2000. The results of our empirical analysis support our theory-based insights. …
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The microeconomic empirical literature devoted to the link between innovation and employment tends to suggest that … in size - positive relationship between innovation and employment. While the links with sales and wages have the expected … signs and turn out to be significant, the job creating impact of innovation proves robust after checking for time, industry …
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According to the compensation theory, market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour-saving impact of process innovations. In this paper a critique of this approach is proposed through a detailed survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on the subject. The...
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This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The empirical analysis is based on both the European sectoral OECD data and on a unique micro longitudinal database consisting of 532 top European R&D investors. The main conclusions...
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This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in …-house R&D is linked to the propensity to introduce product innovation both in mature firms and YICs; however, innovation …
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In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel estimations of a demand-for-labour equation augmented with technology. We find that R&D...
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