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

Vivarelli, Marco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

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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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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Technology, Employment and Skills: An Interpretative Framework

Vivarelli, Marco - In: Eurasian Business Review 3 (2013) 1, pp. 66-89

In this paper the theoretical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change is critically discussed and the relative explanatory power of the competing economic theories assessed. Copyright Eurasia Business and Economics Society 2013

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

Vivarelli, Marco - In: Journal of Economic Issues 48 (2014) 1, pp. 123-154

technology and employment. More specifically, I draw some general conclusions about possible consequences of that relationship. …

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The Radical Innovation Investment Decision Refined

Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non … stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …

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

Vivarelli, Marco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

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Innovation and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The microeconomic empirical literature devoted to the link between innovation and employment tends to suggest that … investments, as in Italian manufacturing. Applying GMM-SYS to an employment equation augmented for technology and using a unique … in size - positive relationship between innovation and employment. While the links with sales and wages have the expected …

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Innovation and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - In: Journal of Economics 86 (2005) 1, pp. 65-83

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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization

Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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