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How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?
Hunt, Jennifer; Gauthier-Loiselle, Marjolaine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823001
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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature
Vivarelli, Marco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393120
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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?
Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to bring convergence, labor flows would respond,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703144
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international … technological transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884188
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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries
Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the "state of the art" in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884241
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Entrepreneurship in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Microeconomic Perspective
Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279314
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Is Corporate R&D Investment in High-Tech Sectors More Effective? Some Guidelines for European Research Policy
Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; Potters, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The empirical analysis is based on both the European sectoral OECD data and on a unique micro longitudinal database consisting of 532 top European R&D investors. The main conclusions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078574
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R&D and Employment: Some Evidence from European Microdata
Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
innovation policy makers having employment as one of their specific aims. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246701
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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature
Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646305
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The Catalysing Role of In-House R&D in Fostering the Complementarity of Innovative Inputs
Vivarelli, Marco; Catozzella, Alessandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation - internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822404