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This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried … out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering … beneficial product and service innovations create jobs in contrast to process innovations. Employment changes occur in the wake …
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This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they … growth turns out to be smaller in foreign-owned firms than in domestically owned firms. -- Employment ; innovation ; foreign …
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. (2014), our empirical analysis reveals four important findings: First, the net effect of product innovation on employment …A growing literature investigates how firms' innovation input reacts to changes in the business cycle. However, so far … there is no evidence whether there is cyclicality in the effects of innovation on firm performance as well. In this paper …
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dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by … product innovation may be offset by employment losses in related products, known as 'cannibalisation' or 'business stealing …' effects in the literature, by employment losses from process and organisational innovation and by general productivity …
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The effect of innovations on employment at the firm level is theoretically ambiguous. The present paper analyses this … positive effect on employment growth that is typically most pronounced in the second year after application. The effect seems …
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This study examines reforms of public expenditure in industrialised countries over the past two decades. We distinguish ambitious and timid reformers and analyse in detail reform experiences in eight case studies of ambitious reform episodes. We find that ambitious reform countries reduce...
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employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children … depends on their employment status and household characteristics. Using a simultaneous sequential approach, we consider links …
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This paper analyses the effect of training participation on employees’ retention in the training company. It for the first time empirically combines the human capital and the monopsony theory by jointly controlling for the portability, visibility, and credibility of training. Based on an...
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