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Succeeding in Innovation: Key Insights on the Role of R&D and Technological Acquisition Drawn from Company Data
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper discusses the relationship between a company's investment in innovation and its success in introducing new … homogenous R&D-based knowledge production function by introducing different types of innovation investments (R&D and technology … acquisition) for different sets of companies. Using the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) dataset comprising more than 3000 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735643
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The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives
Dostie, Benoit; Jayaraman, Rajshri - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969328
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On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000
Eckstein, Zvi; Weiss, Yoram - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital theory. The sources of the wage growth are: (i) the rise of the return to imported human capital; (ii) the impact of accumulated experience in the host country; and, (iii) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703527
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Beyond Additionality: Are Innovation Subsidies Counterproductive?
Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
two (input and output) dimensions of innovation into a unique efficiency perspective. To this aim, the impact of public … sample of firm-level data drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (CIS). A bivariate endogenous switching … the innovation subsidy; far from 'doing better' as a result of government intervention, supported firms appear to exhaust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644629
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The Job Creation Effect of R&D Expenditures
Bogliacino, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel estimations of a demand-for-labour equation augmented with technology. We find that R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480919
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How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate?
Pellegrino, Gabriele; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in …-house R&D is linked to the propensity to introduce product innovation both in mature firms and YICs; however, innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002825
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Educational Diversity and Knowledge Transfers via Inter-Firm Labor Mobility
Marino, Marianna; Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This article contributes to the literature on knowledge transfer via labor mobility by providing new evidence regarding the role of educational diversity in knowledge transfer. In tracing worker flows between firms in Denmark over the period 1995-2005, we find that knowledge carried by workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884242
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles
Kocher, Martin G.; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders influence their leadership style in choice under risk. We find that leaders who prefer efficiency or report high levels of selfishness are more likely to exercise an autocratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703650
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884106