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Innovation Strategies and Employment in Latin American Firms
Crespi, Gustavo; Zuñiga, Pluvia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) using micro-data for manufacturing firms from innovation surveys. Building on the model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate...
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Innovation and Productivity - Evidence from Six Latin American Countries
Crespi, Gustavo; Zuniga, Pluvia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This study examines the determinants of technological innovation and its impact on firm labor productivity across six Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and Uruguay) using micro data from innovation surveys. In line with the literature, in all countries...
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Effects of innovation on employment in Latin America
Crespi, Gustavo; Tacsir, Ezequiel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products. Results … innovations only affects the employment growth in the countries case of Chile. At the same time, we observe no evidence of … displacement effects due to the introduction of product innovations. In fact, the observed compensation effects resulting from the …
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The Impact of Funding on Research Collaboration: Evidence from Argentina
Ubfal, Diego Javier; Maffioli, Alessandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
In this paper, we evaluate the impact of research grants on the amount of collaboration, among scientific researchers in Argentina. We find a positive and significant impact of funding on collaboration, which is measured in terms of the number of co-authors for publications in peer-reviewed...
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