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This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata … demonstrate that employment growth is explained by product innovation. On the other hand, we find no evidence of a displacement … employment is slightly favored over that of unqualified employment. …
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required labour per unit of output, technology has not reduced the aggregate employment in the Indian manufacturing sector … trade and technology in the mid-1980s. In this paper, we examine the impact of technology on employment and skill demand … within the Indian manufacturing sector. Estimating a dynamic labour demand equation, we find that that despite reducing the …
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What are the consequences of green industrialization on the labour market and industry dynamics? This paper tackles and … quantifies this question by employing observable and reliable data on green manufacturing production for an extensive set of EU … countries and 4-digit manufacturing industries for over a decade. First, at a descriptive level, this paper documents that …
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for a sample of Italian SMEs operating in the manufacturing industry. After accounting for the under-reporting of R&D in …This paper studies firms' decisions to export and invest in R&D and their effects on employment growth and labor flows … SMEs, our quantile regressions reveal that (i) R&D is associated with higher employment growth rates, higher hiring rates …
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the share of informal employment. The industry-level results indicate that a rise in import penetration from either China … modulated by the labor intensity of the industry, the state-level initial share of manufacturing in the gross domestic product … deindustrialization among developing countries. This study draws on the large increase in the international trade exposure of the …
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findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period … of massive trade opening in the early 1990s in Latin America. Using manufacturing firm-level data and sectoral variation … employment effects. The results reinforce some of the key findings of the earlier literature, notably the positive …
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the early 1990s. Since then, the trade integration of the Indian economy in general and the manufacturing sector in … on jobs in the Indian manufacturing sector. Using the growth accounting approach, we find that the direct impact of trade … on manufacturing jobs has been positive. However, trade induced decrease in labour demand has neutralized direct job …
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Faced with easier access to foreign technology and imported capital goods, firms in India's organised manufacturing … production. This has raised much concern about the ability of the manufacturing sector to create jobs for India's rapidly rising …
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The literature has identified that countries with higher levels of openness tend to present a larger government sector … as a way to reduce the risks to the economy that openness entails. This paper argues that there are a number of policies … between openness and the size of government might be mediated by the quality of its public sector. While countries with weak …
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