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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...

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Defending Gibrat’s Law as a Long-Run Regularity

Lotti, Francesca; Santarelli, Enrico; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

According to Gibrat’s Law of Proportionate Effect, the growth rate of a given firm is independent of its size at the beginning of the period examined. While earlier studies tended to confirm the Law, more recent research generally rejects it. This paper reconciles these two streams of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763509

Innovation and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The microeconomic empirical literature devoted to the link between innovation and employment tends to suggest that … investments, as in Italian manufacturing. Applying GMM-SYS to an employment equation augmented for technology and using a unique … in size - positive relationship between innovation and employment. While the links with sales and wages have the expected …

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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 …

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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

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...

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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...

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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. …

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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 …

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Innovation and Employment: A Survey

Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

According to the "compensation theory", market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour-saving impact of process innovations. In this paper a critique of this approach is proposed through a detailed survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on the subject. The...

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