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This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures …
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In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample … statistically significant evidence of the expected labor-friendly nature of innovation. More in detail, neither R&D nor investment … significant employment effect. However, the job-creation impact of R&D expenditures becomes highly significant when the focus is …
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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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There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed … Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm’s expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...
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This paper presents a dynamic model that analyzes how firms' expectations with regards to technological change influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing rapidly. As the pace of innovations in production...
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The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, the economic insights about the employment impact of technological … significant labour-friendly impact of R&D expenditures (mainly related to product innovation) is found; yet, this positive … employment effect appears to be entirely due to the medium-and high-tech sectors, while no effect can be detected in the low …
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and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …
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innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … productivity. Secondly, we draw attention to recent modeling and estimation effort that reveals novel sources of heterogeneity, non …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …
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What have we learned, from the most recent years of debate and analysis, of the future of work being threatened by technology? This paper presents a critical review of the empirical literature and outlines both lessons learned and challenges ahead. Far from being fully exhaustive, the review...
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