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In this paper we assess the job creation effect of R&D expenditures, using a unique longitudinal database of 677 European companies over the period 1990-2008. We estimate a dynamic labour demand specification using a Least Squares Dummy Variable Corrected (LSDVC) technique. The labour-friendly...
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In this paper the theoretical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change …
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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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In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel estimations of a demand-for-labour equation augmented with technology. We find that R&D...
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The aim of this paper is to test the employment effect of business R&D expenditures, using a unique longitudinal … traditional manufacturing sectors. This means that we should not expect positive employment effects from increasing R&D in the … majority of industrial sectors. This evidence should be kept in mind by European innovation policy makers having employment as …
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This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment …
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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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I discuss the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of … technology and employment. More specifically, I draw some general conclusions about possible consequences of that relationship. …
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employment creation nor the decrease in within-country inequality are automatically assured by increasing trade and FDI. The … other main findings of the paper are that: 1) the employment effect can be very diverse in different areas of the world …
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