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Sectoral and aggregate technology shocks: Is there a relationship?

Hölzl, Werner; Reinstaller, Andreas - Vienna University of Economics and Business Research … - 2004

We analyze sector specific shocks in productivity and demand in 19 manufacturing sectors of the Austrian economy. Based on a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model with long run restrictions developed by Gali's (1999) we extract technology and non-technology shocks from sectoral...

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Lucky Country or Fool's Paradise?

Hefford, Ronald K. - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 1991

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An International Comparison of Small Business Employment

Schmitt, John; Lane, Nathan - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Contrary to popular perceptions, the United States has a much smaller small-business sector (as a share of total employment) than other countries at a comparable level of economic development, according to this new CEPR report. The authors observe that the undersized U.S. small business sector...

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Employment, Innovation, and Productivity: Evidence from Italian Microdata.

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques; Lotti, Francesca - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …

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R&D and Employment: Some Evidence from European Microdata

Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

innovation policy makers having employment as one of their specific aims. …

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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...

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Innovation, Labour Demand and Wages in Poland. Some Introductory Results Using Micro-macro Data

Walewski, Mateusz - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2009

There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most of the results indicating positive effects. Thus far, this kind of analysis has not been performed for Poland and it seems to be an important and interesting field for...

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Effects of Innovation on Employment: A Dynamic Panel Analysis

Lachenmaier, Stefan; Rottmann, Horst - CESifo - 2007

This paper estimates the effect of innovation on employment at the firm level. Our uniquely long innovation panel data … set of German manufacturing firms covers more than 20 years and allows us to use various innovation measures. We can … distinguish between product and process innovations as well as between innovation inputs and innovation outputs. Using dynamic …

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Employment, innovation, and productivity: Evidence from italian microdata

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - Banca d'Italia - 2007

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firmsï¿½ productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …

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Unbundling Canada's Weak Productivity Performance

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2010

This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a synthesis of the productivity studies conducted by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) and the McKinsey Global Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling...

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