Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms' incentives to innovate and competitive …

This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in … competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that …

in response to increased import competition from developing countries. Using employer-employee matched data for the … ICT intensive industries in response to stronger import competition through an increase in the relative demand for …

This paper deals with the complex relationship between innovation and the labor market, analyzing the impact of new …

The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding of the fundamental sources of … structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for … in the South, the relationship between trade and growth, competition and Ramp;D, and the role of imperfect capital …