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This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries … model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only … which innovation strategies affect employment. The findings show that innovation strategies enhance technological innovation …
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This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth and composition in Argentina … innovations was observed. With respect to the impact of innovation on employment composition, there is scant evidence of a skill …, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay using micro data from innovation surveys. Based on the model put forward by Harrison et al …
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Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …
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innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …
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We document political sentiment effects on US inventors. Democratic inventors are more likely to patent (relative to Republicans) after the 2008 election of Obama but less likely after the 2016 election of Trump. These effects are 2-3 times as strong among politically active partisans and are...
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of low-carbon energy innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid … document recent trends in energy innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the potential role for … complementary innovation in both physical capital--using smart grids as an example of how policy can help--and human capital, where …
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This paper studies the degree to which innovation by Costa Rican manufacturing firms creates or displaces employment …, how different innovation strategies affect employment, and how these effects vary by firm size and type of employment … process innovations on employment growth. Particular attention is paid to identifying innovation impacts on employment …
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classified as either support for process innovation or support for product innovation. Although these types of programs do not … tests this assumption. It compares the impact of each type of support on employment and the type of employment measured by … difference in differences were combined. The study found that by supporting both process and product innovation …
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Does capital accumulation increase labor demand and wages? Neoclassical production functions, where capital and labor are q-complements, ensure that the answer is yes, so long as labor markets are competitive. This result critically depends on the assumption that capital accumulation does not...
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Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...
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