Di Cintio, Marco; Ghosh, Sucharita; Grassi, Emanuele - 2016
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 …