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Experience, innovation and productivity: Empirical evidence from Italy's slowdown

Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - 2010

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

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Persistence of innovation in Dutch manufacturing : is it spurious?

Raymond, Wladimir; Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz; van … - 2006

This paper studies the persistence of innovation and the dynamics of innovation output in Dutch manufacturing using … firm data from three waves of the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS), pertaining to the periods 1994-1996, 1996-1998, and …

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The twin effects of globalization: Evidence from a sample of Indian manufacturing firms

Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - 2010

Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...

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Manufacturers and retailers in the global economy

Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2011

We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in order to understand how these two industries interact and how labor is allocated between them. We show that the observed shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the...

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New Technologies, Global Value Chains, and the Developing Economies

Rodrik, Dani - 2019

Many of the exports of developing countries are channeled through global value chains (GVCs), which also act as conduits for new technologies. However, new capabilities and productive employment remain limited so far to a tiny sliver of globally integrated firms. GVCs and new technologies...

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Economic Globalisation and Africa's Quest for Greener and More Inclusive Growth : The Missing Link

Ofori, Isaac K; Freytag, Andreas; Asongu, Simplice A. - 2023

This study examines the contingency and threshold effects of economic freedom in the economic globalisation (EG) and inclusive green growth (IGG) relationship in Africa. Based on macro data for 22 African countries and the Driscoll-Kraay standard errors with fixed effects instrumental variable...

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Effects of innovation on employment: a dynamic panel analysis

Lachenmaier, Stefan; Rottmann, Horst - 2007

This paper estimates the effect of innovation on employment at the firm level. Our uniquely long innovation panel data … set of German manufacturing firms covers more than 20 years and allows us to use various innovation measures. We can … distinguish between product and process innovations as well as between innovation inputs and innovation outputs. Using dynamic …

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An empirically-based taxonomy of Dutch manufacturing : innovation policy implications

Raymond, Wladimir; Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz; van … - 2004

industries. The same pattern shows up in the three Dutch Community Innovation Surveys. …

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Technological regimes in the Brazilian manufacturing industry: An empirical investigation

Vieira, Vinicius; Resende, Marcelo - 2013

The paper aims at assessing technological regimes in the context of the Brazilian manufacturing industry along the 2000-2005 period. The industries were classified in terms of SM-I and SM-II technological regimes by means of multivariate statistical methods based on variable approximating...

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Quadratic Costs, Innovation and Welfare : The Role of Technology

Marjit, Sugata - 2020

In a Cournot oligopoly set up with constant marginal cost and linear demand, innovation is rewarding. In this paper we … work with a Cournot oligopoly framework with increasing marginal cost and linear demand and show that innovation may not be … interaction we attempt to capture and explain is the one of technology with the possibility of innovation via the intensity of …

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