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Firm-level upgrading in developing countries
Verhoogen, Eric - 2021
various dimensions of upgrading - learning, quality upgrading, technology adoption, and product innovation. The second part …
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Is distance from innovation a barrier to the adoption of Artificial Intelligence?
Hunt, Jennifer; Cockburn, Iain; Bessen, James - 2024
innovation hotspots. We find that a commuting zone which is an additional 200km (125 miles) from the closest AI hotspot has 17 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015074505
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Do foreign owners favor short-term profit? : evidence from Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2014
Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to …
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Resources on the stage : a firm level analysis of the ICT adoption in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer...
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Differences in job de-routinization in OECD countries : evidence from PIAAC
Rica, Sara de la; Gortazar, Lucas - 2016
The aim of the paper is threefold. First, we compute differences on the degree of de-routinization of job contents across a harmonized and hence comparable sample of Anglo-Saxon, many European and even Asian advanced countries. We do so by using very precise information on job contents at the...
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Adopting mobile money : evidence from an experiment in rural Africa
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2020
Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164537
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The adoption of ChatGPT
Humlum, Anders; Vestergaard, Emilie - 2024
We study the adoption of ChatGPT, the icon of Generative AI, using a large-scale survey experiment linked to comprehensive register data in Denmark. Surveying 100,000 workers from 11 exposed occupations, we document ChatGPT is pervasive: half of workers have used it, with younger, less...
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Innovation and employment in patenting firms : empirical evidence from Europe
Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …
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How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? : a study on France, Germany and the UK
Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015
different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …
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Collective bargaining and innovation in Germany : cooperative industrial relations?
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2013
The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … representative data for Germany - for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime - to investigate the … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and …
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