), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. We develop a …

investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large … positive impact on a firm's productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.10; this general result is largely consistent … ahead in terms of the impact on productivity of their R&D investments; moreover, a shift in favour of the service sectors …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … their labor productivity. Overall, the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in micro firms does not largely differ … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …

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 …

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 …

In this paper, we study the crowdsourcing of innovation in Africa through a data science contest on an intermediated …

supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 …-skilled workers. Labor market tightness and external demand are plausible mechanisms for the labor-innovation nexus. …