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We analyze the effect of the Öresund Bridge, a combined railway and motorway bridge between Swedish Malmö and the Danish capital Copenhagen, on inventive activity in the region of Malmö. Applying difference-in-difference estimation on individual-level data, our findings suggest that the...
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cluster. Yet, most studies on the productivity effects of agglomerations measure innovation with patent data, thus capturing … alternative proxy for productivity, complementing the literature by covering a broad range of software engineering. With user … activity data covering the years 2015 to 2021, we relate cluster size to an individual's productivity. Our findings suggest …
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Until today, the question of how digitalisation and, in particular, individual digital technologies affect productivity … analytics (BDA) on labour productivity (LP) at the firm level. We find that a simple binary measure indicating the mere usage of …
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output per worker, pay higher wages and, more generally, have higher total factor productivity. Furthermore, evidence from …
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We investigate the impact of product market competition on firms’ automation investments. We use a rich combination of micro-data on Portuguese exporters and exploit a novel source of variation in the degree of competition they face – a tariff liberalization between the European Union and...
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Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries …
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This paper estimates the effect of heterogeneous university funding stemming from the German Excellence Initiative on a regional firm’s probability to innovate by using a multi-valued two-way fixed effects difference-in-differences model. The estimations show that funding an additional...
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workers from other firms. Based on data from the Community Innovation Survey, this paper analyses the role of different types … of intended and unintended knowledge spillovers for innovation output at the firm level. Among intended knowledge … spillovers, using knowledge from patents shows the strongest link to innovation output, particularly in case of product …
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This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
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The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be … especially the most recent generation of IT as indicated by the number of PCs used is the source of productivity growth whereas …
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