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innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … using specific information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation … manufacturing and service firms regarding process innovations were found. Finally, from a cross country perspective the results for …
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activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and …Extending a recently developed multi-product model and distinguishing between different product and process innovation … information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The …
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This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in … manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however …, differs in a number of ways from much of the previous cross-country comparisons on the relationship between innovation and …
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employment for different types of labour in manufacturing. The empirical model allows for endogeneity of the firm?s innovation … market products is more important than any other measure of product innovation in determining the expected employment …
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model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level data. Since students in the Netherlands have to participate both in …
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This paper addresses the major weakness of measuring tax evasion through business and household surveys, namely the reluctance of respondents to answer truthfully due to the threat of disclosure. First, we assess the merits of a novel questioning method to gather information about tax evasion by...
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Worker remittances constitute an increasingly important mechanism for the transfer of resources from developed to developing countries, and remittances are the second-largest source, behind foreign direct investment, of external funding for developing countries. Yet, literature on worker...
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import-driven convergence and no robust difference between imports of intermediate and investment goods. Accordingly, trade …
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This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...
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We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …
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