: first, we estimate the determinants of the firm’s organizational governance (production outsourcing); second, we incorporate … the optimal organizational governance perform less well in terms of process innovation than more aligned competitors, but … (ii) that misalignment has a positive effect on product innovation. However, this counterintuitive result is strongly …

The aim of this paper is to provide firm-level evidence on the short-run link between outsourcing and labor … find a positive effect on productivity from outsourcing only if firms provide training for the workforce. This indirect … impact on productivity is independent of the type of activity outsourced and is bigger in the case of service outsourcing …

abatement outsourcing are highlighted, qualifications and refinements of the theory of vertical integration are then proposed …

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant …

This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of … diversity consistently increases the innovation performance of European Countries. …

This paper investigates the connection between resource abundance and innovation, as a transmission mechanism that can …, consumers trade off leisure versus consumption, and firms trade off innovation efforts versus manufacturing. For this model, we … indirectly by inducing a smaller proportion of the labor force to engage in innovation. …

energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy …