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Firm Size, Knowledge Intensity and Employment Generation: The Microeconometric Evidence for the Service Sector in Uruguay
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula; Lanzilotta, Bibiana; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The employment impact of innovation in the heterogeneous universe of services was studied using data from the 2004 …-2009 Uruguayan service innovation surveys. The empirical evidence shows that the impact of product innovation on employment is … positive, while process innovation appears to have no effect. The effect varies according to the skill level of the labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366905
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Innovation, Firm Size, Technology Intensity, and Employment Generation in Uruguay: The Microeconometric Evidence
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula; Lanzilotta, Bibiana; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between innovation and employment, in terms of both its quantity … and quality, in Uruguay. The effect of product and process innovation on employment growth and on employment composition … in terms of skills was studied, using data from manufacturing firms' innovation surveys, matched against economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371000
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The Effects of Shared School Technology Access on Students' Digital Skills in Peru
Cristia, Julian; Bet, Germán; Ibarrarán, Pablo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944175
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Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program Title: Tecnología y desarrollo infantil: Evidencia del programa Una computadora por niño
Cristia, Julian; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944498
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Employment Generation, Firm Size, and Innovation in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Benavente, José Miguel; Campusano, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper compiles and analyzes several sources of information to shed light on the relationship between innovation … process innovation is generally not found to be a relevant determinant of employment growth, and that product innovation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357941
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Technological and Nontechnological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing in Uruguay
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
In this paper, the links between the investment in innovation activities, innovation outputs (technological and non …-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the … more consistently associated with the decision to invest in innovation activities across sectors. The main determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741896
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Innovation, Firm Size, Technology Intensity, and Employment Generation in Uruguay: The Microeconometric Evidence
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula; Lanzilotta, Bibiana; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between innovation and employment, in terms of both its quantity … and quality, in Uruguay. The effect of product and process innovation on employment growth and on employment composition … in terms of skills was studied, using data from manufacturing firms' innovation surveys, matched against economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653665
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Employment Generation, Firm Size, and Innovation in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Benavente, José Miguel; Campusano, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper compiles and analyzes several sources of information to shed light on the relationship between innovation … process innovation is generally not found to be a relevant determinant of employment growth, and that product innovation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653771
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Firm Size, Knowledge Intensity and Employment Generation: The Microeconometric Evidence for the Service Sector in Uruguay
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula; Lanzilotta, Bibiana; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The employment impact of innovation in the heterogeneous universe of services was studied using data from the 2004 …-2009 Uruguayan service innovation surveys. The empirical evidence shows that the impact of product innovation on employment is … positive, while process innovation appears to have no effect. The effect varies according to the skill level of the labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655499
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Technological and Nontechnological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing in Uruguay
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
In this paper, the links between the investment in innovation activities, innovation outputs (technological and non …-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the … more consistently associated with the decision to invest in innovation activities across sectors. The main determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655798