for competitiveness, labour market conditions and trade policy framework and performance. It also narrows the focus to …

for competitiveness, labour market conditions and trade policy framework and performance. It also narrows the focus to …

This study examines the determinants of technological innovation and its impact on firm labor productivity across six … of innovation investment are much more heterogeneous than in OECD countries. Cooperation, foreign ownership, and … exporting increase the propensity to invest in innovation activities and encourage innovation investment in only half of the …

This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between innovation and productivity in the Chilean services sector … extensions we find similar roles for technological and non-technological innovation in labor productivity and for determinants … the case that even larger efforts need to be done to have better measures of innovation and productivity in the services …

In this paper, the links between the investment in innovation activities, innovation outputs (technological and non …-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the … technological and non-technological innovations are the level of investment in innovation activities and the size of firms. The …

This paper uses datasets from six surveys to describe entrepreneurship in Argentina. While the quantity of … entrepreneurship in Argentina is high, its quality is low, given the high proportion of informal and necessity entrepreneurs. Income is … found to play a greater role in determining probability of becoming an entrepreneur than parental wealth; entrepreneurship …

Does entrepreneurship contribute to improving social mobility in Ecuador? This paper constructs a pseudo-panel to … analyze the dynamic effect of entrepreneurship on Ecuadorian household incomes during the period 2002-2010. Using three … estimation scenarios, the paper finds a significant level of unconditional mobility and an important effect of entrepreneurship …

exposed to the business world and entrepreneurial role models. Additionally, they are more likely to rely on a less qualified …