Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …

employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use … small at all levels in Brazil. -- Self-employed ; salary work ; informal sector ; earnings differential ; quantile …

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …

greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key …

This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products … is more conducive to innovation for suppliers, especially when these firms have medium capability levels. Conversely … intermediates and innovation performance, which indicates that technology-gap is an important mediator of learning within value …

of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …