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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 …-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 …

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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - 2021

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 …

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Labour Productivity in Kenyan Manufacturing and Service Industries

Heshmati, Almas - 2016

Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is crucial for Kenya to have high labour...

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Product Market Competition and Employer Provided Training in Germany

Heywood, John S. - 2017

Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten...

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The Quasi-Market of Employment Services in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2019

This paper aims to study the shortcomings and merits of the first experiment of quasi-market in the provision of employment services: the Lombardy DUL (Dote Unica Lavoro). This system, which has inspired the 2015 national reform within the Jobs Act, has reactivated and revitalized the sector by...

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Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs : A New Narrative for African Manufacturing

Naudé, Wim - 2018

In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development. Despite failing to industrialize in the past, there may be a new window of opportunity. This is due to the convergence of what has been called 'brilliant' new technologies associated...

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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...

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Robots and Unions : The Moderating Effect of Organised Labour on Technological Unemployment

Haapanala, Henri; Marx, Ive; Parolin, Zachary - 2022

We analyse the moderating effect of trade unions on industrial employment and unemployment in countries facing exposure to industrial robots. Applying random effects within-between regression to a pseudo-panel of observations from 28 advanced democracies over 1998-2019, we find that stronger...

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Offshoring and Job Stability : Evidence from Italian Manufacturing

Lo Turco, Alessia - 2012

We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995-2001 by using an …

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Lucifora, Claudio - 2012

This paper investigates the causal effect of a switch from fixed wages to collective performance-related pay on firm productivity, exploiting an exogenous variation in the institutional environment regulating collective bargaining. We find that the introduction of collective performance related...

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