This paper studies the degree to which innovation by Costa Rican manufacturing firms creates or displaces employment …, how different innovation strategies affect employment, and how these effects vary by firm size and type of employment … process innovations on employment growth. Particular attention is paid to identifying innovation impacts on employment …

The paper investigates the relationship between government interventions to promote investments in innovation and firms …

The paper contains and impact evaluation of matching grants to promote investments in innovation on firm financed R …

below trend—and total factor productivity (TFP), using a panel of 71 developed and developing countries during the period …

Recent research conducted by the IDB shows that innovation positively affects productivity growth in the Latin American … dynamics at play in the service sector in the region and the relationship between productivity and innovation in services (as … regarding innovation in services is related, at least in part, to uncertainty with respect to how innovation in services …

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 …

This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries … (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) using micro-data for manufacturing firms from innovation surveys. Building on the … model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only …

This paper focuses on two research problems. The first is to measure the direct impacts of innovation support measures … in Brazil, and the second is to test the hypothesis of indirect effects of innovation policies on non-beneficiary firms … innovation have different purposes, and sound innovation relies on both types of incentive. …

chains? What is the supporting role of the innovation system in GVC-driven learning and innovation processes? Empirical …

This paper provides evidence about the relationship between innovation and employment in Argentina. In particular, it … composition (skilled-unskilled labor) and the impact of different innovation strategies (buy or make) on employment growth, and … Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters (2008) was estimated using an IV approach with data from the Innovation Surveys for …