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Technological Innovation and Inclusive Growth in Germany

Naudé, Wim - 2017

Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth. Fearing that this declining impact would undermine...

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R&D, Embodied Technological Change and Employment : Evidence from Italian Microdata

Barbieri, Laura - 2016

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and embodied technological change (ETC). We use a novel panel dataset covering 265 innovative Italian firms over the period 1998-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect...

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Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms : Empirical Evidence from Europe

Van Roy, Vincent - 2015

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which...

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Labor Supply and Automation Innovation

Danzer, Alexander - 2020

While economic theory suggests substitutability between labor and capital, little evidence exists regarding the causal effect of labor supply on inventing labor-saving technologies. We analyze the impact of exogenous changes in regional labor supply on automation innovation by exploiting an...

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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Bahar, Dany - 2020

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants' receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 60 percent more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold increase in the number of...

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Skills-Displacing Technological Change and its Impact on Jobs : Challenging Technological Alarmism?

McGuinness, Seamus - 2019

We use data from a new international dataset - the European Skills and Jobs Survey - to create a unique measure of skills-displacing technological change (SDT), defined as technological change that may render workers' skills obsolete. We find that 16 percent of adult workers in the EU are...

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Employer Power, Labor Saving Technical Change, and Inequality

Chau, Nancy H. - 2018

How does employer power mediate the impact of labor saving technical change on inequality? This question has largely been neglected in the recent literature on the wage and distributional consequences of automation, where the labor market is assumed to be competitive. In a simple task-based...

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Human Resources and Innovation : Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital

Fassio, Claudio - 2015

The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom – in the years 1994-2007. Unlike previous research,...

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Succeeding in Innovation : Key Insights on the Role of R&D and Technological Acquisition Drawn from Company Data

Conte, Andrea - 2015

This paper discusses the relationship between a company's investment in innovation and its success in introducing new product and/or process innovations. In doing so, this analysis departs from the standard approach which puts forward a homogenous R&D-based knowledge production function by...

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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice - 2012

This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV …) education and governance have a much larger direct effect on TFP in LAC than in DEV, while the opposite holds for the North's R …&D and ii) education and governance have an additional impact on TFP in R&D-intensive industries through their interaction …

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