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This paper builds on and considerably extends Piva, Tani and Vivarelli (2018), confirming the key role of Business Visits as a productivity enhancing channel of technology transfer. Our analysis is based on a unique database on business visits sourced from the U.S. National Business Travel...
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This paper builds on and considerably extends Piva, Tani and Vivarelli (2018), confirming the key role of Business Visits as a productivity enhancing channel of technology transfer. Our analysis is based on a unique database on business visits sourced from the U.S. National Business Travel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207715
This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which...
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Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment in many advanced economies. While process innovation can be job-destroying, product innovation can imply the emergence of new firms, new sectors, and thus new jobs. But even for...
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There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed … Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …
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There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change over employment in least developed countries (LDCs … affecting employment and skills. The results obtained lend support to a labour–augmenting effect. Moreover, the implemented two …
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LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labourfriendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment …
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The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, the economic insights about the employment impact of technological … employment effect appears to be entirely due to the medium-and high-tech sectors, while no effect can be detected in the low …-tech industries; 2) capital formation is found to be negatively related to employment; this outcome points to a possible labour …
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In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample … significant employment effect. However, the job-creation impact of R&D expenditures becomes highly significant when the focus is …
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