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, evidence does not conflict with the idea that innovation may be driven by output. Using a balanced panel of 216 Italian …
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rising wages have induced labor-saving innovation in China, at least in the decade of the 1990s, but less so or not at all …We investigate the effect of rising labor costs on induced technological change in China's secondary industry. While …/environmental protection, there has been little evidence relating to China's adjustments as rising labor costs affect its global …
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Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in...
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We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production … in China. Our empirical approach implements concepts developed in Acemoglu (2010) and complements the approaches … summarized by Wei, Xie, and Zhang (2017) that focus on directly observable aspects of innovation (R&D, patent activity, etc …
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We take a fresh look at firms' innovation-productivity linkages, using novel data capturing new aspects of innovative …, trademarks and innovation surveys. We also establish connections between launches and previous innovative activity. We then link …
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This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...
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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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automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …
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This paper discusses the relationship between a company's investment in innovation and its success in introducing new … homogenous R&D-based knowledge production function by introducing different types of innovation investments (R&D and technology … acquisition) for different sets of companies.Using the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) dataset comprising more than 3000 Italian …
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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 …
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