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The effect of innovation on employment: Mexico and Ecuador

Vergara Reyes, Delia M.; Guerrero, Alex J.; Arenas, … - In: Estudios de Economía 50 (2023) 2, pp. 361-378

products in the market positively affects employment in Mexico and Ecuador. While process innovation tends to destroy jobs in … Mexico, it has no effect in the case of Ecuador. The positive impact of product innovation is observed to be greater than the … previously analysed: Mexico and Ecuador. Following the method proposed by Harrison et al. (2014), we find that introducing new …

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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data From Four European Countries

Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Mairesse, … - 2008

This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...

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Volatile multinationals? Evidence from the labor demand of German firms

Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2007

Does more FDI make the world a riskier place for workers? We analyze whether an increase in multinational firms' activities is associated with an increase in firm-level employment volatility. We use a firm-level dataset for Germany which allows us to distinguish between purely domestic firms,...

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Diffusion of information technology, internet use and the demand of heterogeneous labor

Falk, Martin - 2001

This paper analyzes the link between the diffusion of information- and communication technology (ICT) and both the skill structure and employment expectations of the different skill categories. The analysis is based on cross-sectional data for 4150 German firms conducted in mid-2000. The...

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Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn: A Model-Based Approach with Applications to Germany 2008-09

Bargain, Oliver; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2010

Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardesthit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...

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Mindestlöhne kosten Arbeitsplätze: Jobverluste vor allem bei Geringverdienern

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 30, pp. 418-423

auf Basis empirisch ermittelter Elastizitäten der Arbeitsnachfrage - differenziert nach Qualifikation, Geschlecht und …

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Wie groß sind die Beschäftigungsverluste aufgrund eines allgemeinen Mindestlohns?

Müller, Kai-Uwe - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 26, pp. 430-433

Stichprobe und die unterstellten Elastizitäten der Arbeitsnachfrage reagieren. Ein allgemeiner Mindestlohn von 7,50 Euro hätte …

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Threshold Values in German Labor Law and Job Dynamics in Small Firms: The Case of the Disability Law

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2001

According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled empoyees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...

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Employment Adjustment in Portugal: Evidence from Aggregate and Firm Data

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2001

This paper examines the pattern of employment adjustment in Portugal. First, the issue is addressed using a long time series of aggregate data. Although the employment data show persistence, there is nonetheless a fairly rapid rate of employment adjustment. Second, a much shorter time series of...

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The impact of horizontal and vertical FDI on labor demand for different skill groups

Mattes, Anselm - 2009

This paper analyzes the determinants and effects of firm-level FDI flows on the basis of German micro-level data. Concering the determinants of FDI, I differentiate between different target regions and motivations for FDI (market seeking/horizontal FDI versus cost reducing/vertical FDI). The...

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