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This paper investigates the role of wages, education and innovation in shaping employment structures in manufacturing … factors and employment dynamics by skill. As micro factors, we consider the role of education and wages by employee; as macro …, demand and employment. The results reveal that skills are differently affected by education, wages and technologies and a …
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The paper examines the effects of skilled immigration on US wages that are due to innovation. We extend the studies by … Hunt & Gauthier-Loiselle (2010), and Hunt (2011) to explore the immigration-innovation-wages nexus. Using the National … Survey of College Graduates (NSCG) and the US Census datasets we find a significant positive effect of immigration on wages …
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Germany. Most of the ICT companies invest in new know-how and achieve - mainly as a result of own investments into research …
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activities for the level of employment in Germany, an analysis by economic sectors reveals that in almost all sectors exporting … Deutschland belegt eine nach Sektoren differenzierte Betrachtung, dass in fast allen Wirtschaftszweigen die exportierenden … enterprises show an above-average employment development. However, during the years 2008/09, marked by the global economic crisis …
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employment growth. The results drawn from a job-turnover analysis that bases on longitudinal micro data of the German turnover … employment reducing the negative employment effect of large enterprises. Job destruction emerged particularly in manufacturing … employment growth than large enterprises. The study highlights the important role of micro enterprises and new busi-ness creation …
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This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...
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This article evaluates the effect of the Argentinean Support Program for Organizational Change on employment and wages … support increased employment and wages, with a higher impact on employment. In addition, we find that product innovation … to support process and product innovation activities. Although employment is not usually the main objective of these …
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tests this assumption. It compares the impact of each type of support on employment and the type of employment measured by … the wages paid by firms to their employees. To control for self-selection into the program, propensity score matching and …-related activities, the program was able to create more and better jobs. The effect on wages was also found to be higher when supporting …
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This paper argues that a linear model of technology transfer is no longer sufficient, or perhaps even no longer relevant, to account for the nuances and complexities of the technology transfer process that characterizes the ongoing commercialization activities of universities. Shortcomings of...
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