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The Catalysing Role of In-House R&D in Fostering the Complementarity of Innovative Inputs
Vivarelli, Marco; Catozzella, Alessandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822404
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The Substitutability of Labor of Selected Ethnic Groups in the US Labor Market
Kahanec, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper investigates the substitutability of labor of selected ethnic groups in the US labor market. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822462
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Rejecting Capital-Skill Complementarity at all Costs
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as … substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification – this is also the approach used by numerous … hypothesis, the degree of substitutability between skilled labor and capital is lower than that for unskilled labor and capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262521
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The substitutability of labor of selected ethnic groups in the US labor market
Kahanec, Martin - 2006
This paper investigates the substitutability of labor of selected ethnic groups in the US labor market. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267338
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The catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs
Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - 2007
complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268495
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College Openings and Local Economic Development
Berlingieri, Francesco; Gathmann, Christina; … - 2022
We study how the presence of a college affects the local economy using administrative data. Our analysis exploits the opening of new institutions of tertiary education across Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. The new college substantially increased the student population and share of high-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351903
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Rejecting Capital-Skill Complementarity at all Costs
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as … substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification - this is also the approach used by numerous … hypothesis, the degree of substitutability between skilled labor and capital is lower than that for unskilled labor and capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703222
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Do Migrants Displace Native-Born Workers on the Labour Market? The Impact of Workers' Origin
Fays, Valentine; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2024
This article is the first to examine how 1st-generation migrants affect the employment of workers born in the host country according to their origin, distinguishing between natives and 2nd-generation migrants. To do so, we take advantage of access to a unique linked employer-employee dataset for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534046
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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611328
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Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they conferred on the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data about the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167199