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Does Qualification Drive Innovation? A Microeconometric Analysis Using Linked-employer-employee Data

Brandenburg, Bianca; Günther, Jutta; Schneider, Lutz - 2007

source of innovative activities within companies. Broken down by sectoral innovation patterns, this article examines the role … of formal education and actual occupation for product innovation performance in manufacturing firms within a probit model … to the Pavitt classification. Sectors with a high share of highly skilled employees engage in product innovation above …

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Innovation and social capital: Across-country investigation

Doh, Soogwan; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2009

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …

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The development gap between the CIS and EU

Sinitsina, Irina; Atamanov, Aziz; Chubrik, Alexander; … - 2008

); * innovation potential, including R&D, information and communication technologies, and institutional environment; * openness and …

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Globalization and general worker training

Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - 2004

We examine how globalization affects firms incentives to train workers. In our model, firms invest in productivity-enhancing worker training before Cournot competition takes place. When two separated product markets become integrated and are thus replaced with a market with greater demand and...

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Job Loss : Bridging the Research and Policy Discussion

Lynch, Lisa M. - 2005

In this paper I discuss a structural problem facing the United States with respect to our policy responses in the context of trade and technological change and their impact on workers. Both trade and technological change have put enormous pressure on the U.S. economy to raise the skill level of...

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Determinants of FDI in developing countries: has globalization changed the rules of the game?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

There is a startling gap between, allegedly, globalization-induced changes in international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI) and recent empirical evidence on the relative importance of determinants of FDI in developing countries. We show that surprisingly little has changed since...

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Age, human capital and the geography of innovation

Frosch, Katharina; Tivig, Thusnelda - 2007

innovation-relevant human capital or age-specific motivation to lead creative ideas to successful inventions. Departing from …

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Is Tolerance Good or Bad for Growth?

Berggren, Niclas; Elinder, Mikael - 2010

We investigate to what extent tolerance, as measured by attitudes toward different types of neighbors, affects economic growth. Data from the World Values Survey enable us to investigate tolerance-growth relationships for 54 countries. We provide estimates based on cross-sectional as well as...

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Building a better rat trap: technological innovation, human capital and the Irula

Terjesen, Siri - 2007

catchers, Sethu developed an innovative new trap. His innovation won the prestigious Global Development Marketplace award from …

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Human capital diversity and product innovation: A micro-level analysis

Söllner, René - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between human capital diversity measured in terms of occupational diversity and a firm's likelihood to innovate. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee panel dataset of German firms over the period 1998 to 2007. Despite notable...

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