how a firm’s training propensity correlated with its labour productivity. To this end, we specified an equation for … training propensity and an equation for labour productivity, which included as an additional production factor the endogenized …

intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition … further step, we analyzed the impact of apprentice training on labour productivity when apprentice training is considered as … employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures all play a positive or …

We analyze the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the … contrast, the reduction of the number of hierarchical layers is favourable to older workers. Training contributes to protect …

workers to adapt their skills through training. Using a matched employer-employee dataset on the French manufacturing sector … in the 1990s, we investigate whether training incidence increases in response to technical and organisational changes …, and whether this response varies with age. In low-skill occupations, workers older than 50 suffer from reduced training …

We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the … and innovative work practices negatively affects the wage bill share of older workers. In contrast, training older workers … more than average increases their share in the wage bill in the next period. So, training contributes to offset the …

size-innovation relationship. Because firm-reported R&D expenditures may be a biased measure of R&D activities due to under …

creative ideas and a larger absorptive capacity. This allows the Stockholm region to function as a source of innovation and …

Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …