. It examines the impacts of environmental compliance, and its combination with innovation, on TFP convergence of … environmental treatment - are only significant through their interaction with innovation. The β-convergence in firms' TFP is …

Studies show that when exports go up, innovation goes up as well. But what is the mediating effect of domestic … institutions in the association between exports and innovation? If any, which institutions are more likely to improve exports and … innovation in developing countries, and how? To address this lacuna, this study employs estimations of industry fixed effects for …

This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically … demand for labour. This paper aims to isolate the impact of innovation on export performance to understand the direct and …

emphasizes a positive correlation between firm-level innovation and productivity gains. It is unsurprising, then, that policy … makers and researchers widely acknowledge that innovation is one of the major drivers of productivity growth, and is … extensively as a proxy for innovation in the literature. Here, we use a production function approach to estimate the return to R …