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Regional Determinants of Establishments' Innovation Activities: A Multi-Level Approach

Bellmann, Lutz; Crimmann, Andreas; Evers, Katalin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper analyses the determinants of different innovation types. Beside a wide range of firm characteristics also the effects of regional factors are estimated using three-level random effect logit models which account for the clustered and longitudinal structure of the data. The analyses...

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Returns to Computer Use and Organizational Practices of the Firm

Dostie, Benoit; Trépanier, Mathieu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In this paper, we test the hypothesis that computer use will lead to productivity gains only if the firm uses an appropriate set of organizational practices. Detailed data on organizational practices and workers’ compensation are obtained through a Canadian longitudinal linked...

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Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Cooperation of UK Firms: A Regional Investigation

Iammarino, Simona; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for … dichotomy of 'innovative' versus 'non-innovative' firms commonly used in interpreting CIS data. Secondly, we find that the … degrees of firms' technological capabilities. These findings may be useful to help policy making to meet the priorities …

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Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cell Phones on Productivity in a Difficult Business Climate: Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya

Menon, Nidhiya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … significant positive impacts on productivity as measured by value-added per worker, especially for firms with female principal … average regional elevation. Results indicate that for firms with female owners, technology adoption improves value-added per …

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The Firm Size Distribution across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology

Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …

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Does Public Education Expansion Lead to Trickle-Down Growth?

Böhm, Sebastian; Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The paper revisits the debate on trickle-down growth in view of the widely discussed evolution of the earnings and income distribution that followed a massive expansion of higher education. We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model to dynamically evaluate whether economic growth triggered...

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …

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Robots at Work

Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We...

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Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and the Labor Income Share

Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Long, Ngo Van; Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Recent work has documented declines in the labor income share in the United States and beyond. This paper documents that these trends differ between manufacturing and services in the U.S. and in a broad set of other industrialized economies, and shows that a model where the degree of...

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Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and Growth

Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Long, Ngo Van; Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

There is a growing interest in multi-sector models that combine aggregate balanced growth, consistent with the well-known Kaldor facts, with systematic changes in the sectoral allocation of resources, consistent with the Kuznets facts. Although variations in the income elasticity of demand...

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