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The study assesses net employment effects of technical progress which can be expected by the ongoing transition from end-of-pipe technologies towards cleaner production. Empirical evidence is presented on the basis of case studies and panel data including a telephone survey in German industry....
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We analyze the productivity effects of environmental (green) investment as well as of environmental expenditures and energy expenditures. For this purpose, we follow a production function approach where we account for these investment and expenditure categories as inputs. Based on a panel...
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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 more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
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This study investigates productivity effects to firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can get higher productivity effects from adopting new technologies if complementary organisational changes...
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Community Innovation Survey conducted in 2009. The main purpose of the paper is to test whether different types of eco … the role of energy and raw materials prices as well as taxation as drivers for eco-innovation. Customer requirements are … Innovation ; Environmental Impacts ; Discrete Choice Models ; Regulation ; Cost Savings ; Demand Pull ; Environmental Policy …
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Much of the empirical literature analysing the relation between environmental innovation and competitiveness has … difference in terms of economic gains. We find empirical evidence that both the typology of Environmental Innovation and the … empirical strategy is based on a sample of German firms and makes use of a merge of two waves of the Mannheim Innovation Panel …
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prone to increase employment, while firms that want to slash costs by innovation and compete by soft factors decrease … employment more frequently. -- Innovation ; labour demand ; discrete choice models …
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Extending a recently developed multiproduct model and distinguishing between different product and process innovation … activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The …
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