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LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labourfriendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment …
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The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, the economic insights on the employment impact of technological … labor-friendly impact of R&D expenditures (mainly related to product innovation) is found; yet, this positive employment …) capital formation is found to be negatively related to employment; this outcome suggests a possible labor-saving effect due to …
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Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially in the high-tech industries), and this...
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Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...
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