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Innovation Policy and Employment: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Argentina

Castillo, Victoria; Maffioli, Alessandro; Rojo, Sofía; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper presents the evaluation of the Enterprise Restructuring Support Program in Argentina. The aim of the program was to increase the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises by cofinancing technical assistance that can be classified as either support for process innovation or...

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Employment Generation, Firm Size and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence from Argentina

Elejalde, Sheila de; Giuliodori, David; Stucchi, Rodolfo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

quantifies the impact of different types of innovations (process or product innovations) on employment growth and skill … Argentina for the period 1998-2001. The results suggest that product innovations have a positive impact on employment growth … while process innovations have no significant impact on employment growth. In addition, there is some evidence that product …

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Effects of Innovation on Employment in Latin America

Crespi, Gustavo; Tacsir, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

. (1998), employment growth is related to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and … innovations was observed. With respect to the impact of innovation on employment composition, there is scant evidence of a skill …

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Measuring the Competitiveness of Selected CARICOM Countries: The Findings of the Global Competitiveness Index 2009-2010: Private Sector Development Discussion Paper #1

Drzeniek-Hanouz, Margareta; Mia, Irene; Herrera, Eva … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

The World Economic Forum (WEF) views competitiveness as the potential of a country to grow in a sustained way over the medium to long term and thus create prosperity for its citizens. The Global Competitiveness Index (GCI), developed by Professor Xavier Sala-i-Martin of Columbia University...

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