This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand … for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised … output and capital growth are more important in explaining the demand for heterogeneous labour than substitution effects …

We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees … complementarities between technical and business skills within the group of founders, but that there are significant complementarities … between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of …

of regions of origin on average obtain improvements in language skills with a higher probability. …

labour and intermediate materials. A parametric test of the concavity of the cost function in prices is provided and price … and medium skilled labour than any other pairs of inputs. …

employment for different types of labour in manufacturing. The empirical model allows for endogeneity of the firm's innovation … decision in the labour demand equations. The system of probit equations is estimated using simulated ML based on 800 West … probabilities for homogeneous labour. Furthermore, as expected, technological innovations have the strongest impact on university …

The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour market equilibria could arise. Skill-biased technological change induces …