panel GMM system estimation we find positive effects of innovation on employment. This result is robust to the use of …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 …

that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax … labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap …

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector …

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R … spillovers are primarily of intra-industry type. Notably, these intra-industry remainder spillovers turn out economically more …

indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to … keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD countries for the period 1971 to 2002 that the strictness of … employment protection raises the employment threshold in all econometric specifications. A higher wage bargaining coordination …

school graduates accumulated 2.8 quarters more private employment. However, because they substitute private for public and … self-employment, overall employment does not increase but is still better paid. For high school dropouts, no persistent …

We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the … period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of … trade openness on income inequality differs across countries. Trade openness tends to disproportionately benefit the …

This paper analyses the short- and long-run effects of trade openness on financial development in a panel including … openness tends to strengthen financial development in the long run but to have an adverse effect in the short run. By contrast …