answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs' counterparts, i.e. the 'control … very important but specific function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …

This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to … document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of …

are used to compare the number of patents granted to co-determined firms before and after the introduction of the law …

The microeconomic empirical literature devoted to the link between innovation and employment tends to suggest that … in size - positive relationship between innovation and employment. While the links with sales and wages have the expected … signs and turn out to be significant, the job creating impact of innovation proves robust after checking for time, industry …

We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to … identify causal effects of class absence on student performance. We utilise the panel properties of the data to control for …

Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version … of the ?natural trading partners? hypothesis seems to hold for Korea and Mexico though not necessarily for Poland. …

We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the … informal sector, and not working. We use a dynamic multinomial logit panel data model with random effects, explaining the labor … market state of each individual during each time period. The data is drawn from Mexico ?s Urban Employment Survey, a …

We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five … quarters drawn from Mexico?s Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two … differentials increase with education level. The probability of formal sector employment strongly increases with the wage …

this paper we use a unique data set from rural Mexico collected for the purposes of evaluating the impact of the PROGRESA …