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contact with their former colleagues. This implies that the positive feedback (social network effects) that has been found by …
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are used to compare the number of patents granted to co-determined firms before and after the introduction of the law …
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contact with their former colleagues. This implies that the positive feedback ("social network effects") that has been found …
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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 …
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positive and significant impact of AI patent families on employment, supporting the labour-friendly nature of product … innovation in the AI supply industries. However, this effect is small in magnitude and limited to service sectors and younger …
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In this note we compare the laissez-faire steady-state solution in the Howitt and Aghion (1998) model to the social optimum. The analysis offers several new insights in comparison to the welfare analysis in Aghion and Howitt (1992). We find various new distortions between private and optimal...
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This paper presents a dynamic model that analyzes how firms' expectations with regards to technological change influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing rapidly. As the pace of innovations in production...
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problems, we use an exogenous proxy for technological change, namely the number of patents granted by the U.S. patent office … classified by technological class. We map the technological classes to the Spanish industrial sectors in which the patents are …
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In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel estimations of a demand-for-labour equation augmented with technology. We find that R&D...
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Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find …. We show that, when the network size increases, on average, the unemployed workers hear about more vacancies through their … social network but, at the same time, it is more likely that multiple vacancies reach the same unemployed worker. Above a …
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