panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

enhancing the assignment of workers to jobs in the face of firm productivity heterogeneity and skill-biased technological change …. It shows that in order to do so policy needs to be a function of the properties of the firm’s productivity distribution … emerging from the analysis is that the degree of firm productivity heterogeneity, in terms of skewness and variance, matters …

three questions (a) What is the source of knowledge flows? (b) To what extent do such flows contribute to productivity …

factors which may condition economic growth, such as innovation, migration, and the local 'social filter', taking also into … account the geographical component of intervention in transport infrastructure and innovation. The results of the two … filter', good innovation capacity, both in the region and in neighbouring areas, and a region's capacity to attract migrants …

Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three …) the study of the existence and efficiency of regional innovation systems; and (3) the examination of the geographical … literature by combining in one model R&D, spillovers, and innovation systems approaches. A multiple regression analysis is …