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Employment polarization and the role of the apprenticeship system
Rendall, Michelle; Weiss, Franziska - 2014
This paper studies the effects of the apprenticeship system on innovation and labor market polarization. A stylized …) from the firm's perspective, when training apprentices, technological innovation is costly since training becomes obsolete …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358709
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Gross earning inequalities in OECD countries and major non-member economies : determinants and future scenarios
Braconier, Henrik; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - 2014
Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465013
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A Schumpeterian model of investment and innovation with labor market regulation
Calcagnini, Giorgio; Giombini, Germana; Travaglini, Giuseppe - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 27 (2018) 7/8, pp. 628-651
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020529
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Funding innovation and the regulatory environment : the role of employment protection legislation
Moro, Andrea; Maresch, Daniela; Ferrando, Annalisa; … - In: Journal of business research : JBR 145 (2022), pp. 745-756
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Perceptions of HRM and their effect on dimensions of innovative work behaviour : evidence from a manufacturing firm
Veenendaal, Andre; Bondarouk, Tanya - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 26 (2015) 2, pp. 139-160
Research has shown that employees' innovative work behaviour is important for the competitive advantage of organizations. However, the question of how this innovative work behaviour can be stimulated remains unanswered. The purpose of this paper is to test empirically the effect of perceptions...
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Service innovation and internationalization in SMEs : implications for growth and performance
Kunttu, Anna; Torkkeli, Lasse - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 26 (2015) 2, pp. 83-100
-sized enterprises (SMEs). The literature has yielded mixed results on how innovation impacts internationalization and performance of … internationalization (DOI) among the companies. We then discuss the implications on innovation management and corporate strategy. …
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A hidden source of innovation? : revisiting the impact of initial vocational training on technological innovation
Matthies, Eike; Thomä, Jörg; Bizer, Kilian - 2022
primarily promotes the innovation activities of very small firms by stimulating knowledge diffusion in regional innovation …' participation in initial VET and their innovation outcomes. The results based on linear probability models show that the impact of … VET activity on innovation is indeed ambiguous. Overall, as expected, participation in initial VET has virtually no effect …
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Does initial vocational training foster innovativeness at the company level? : evidence from German establishment data
Matthies, Eike; Haverkamp, Katarzyna; Thomä, Jörg; … - 2021
' participation in initial VET on their innovation outcomes. The results based on linear probability models and instrumental variable … regressions with entropy balancing show that the impact of VET activity on innovation is more ambiguous than postulated. Overall …, the participation in initial VET has virtually no effect on product innovation and radical novelties. For the total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495922
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Distorted Innovation : Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226119
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Chapter 1. Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2014
We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....
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