We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle … income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese … China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …

is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

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 … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … endogeneity using a modified version of the shift-share instrument. Skilled migrants increase the number of patents at both the … district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activity …

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