This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments database(MMD) that is made available for researchers through Eurostat. The MMD is an internationally harmonized research database of statistical moments collected from linked...

We examine how the structure of multinational enterprises; (MNEs) activity affects technology spillovers between MNEs and their host economies by using firm-level data of Japanese MNEs and patent citations data. We construct new measures of foreign direct investment (FDI) by exploiting...

This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments database (MMD) that is made available for researchers through Eurostat. The MMD is an internationally harmonized research database of statistical moments collected from linked...

This article measures the impact of public grants, on the technological output of Spanish manufacturing companies, measured by their count of utility models. The paper estimates two models: one for national grants and the other for regional ones, since origin of funds is considered to create a...

Technological innovation sometimes requires industry incumbents to shift to a completely new core technology. In order to successfully navigate a technological transition, firms often face the ambidextrous challenge of "exploiting" existing complementary assets in order to support the new...

This article investigates technological and organizational antecedents of product related service (PRS) strategies implemented by manufacturing firms. We examine the way manufacturing practices and the related technological and organizational innovations impact PRS offered by firms. Using an...

There is widespread and growing concern about the availability of good jobs in the U.S. economy. Inequality has been growing for thirty years and is now at levels not seen since the 1920s. Stable and remunerative employment has become harder for U.S. workers to find. With the widespread plant...

Innovative workplace practices based on multi-tasking and ICT that have been diffusing in most OECD countries since the 1990s have strong consequences on working conditions. Available data show together with the emergence of new organizational forms like multi-tasking, the increase in the...

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...