liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also … document : la libéralisation du secteur financier ; renforcer la concurrence sur les marchés des biens et services ; l’éducation …, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …

labor scarcity affects corporate innovation based on the matched dataset of annual surveys of industrial firms in China and …

labour market rigidity tends to suppress firm innovation, we provide novel evidence of a positive relationship between … population ageing and firm innovation in China. This enhancement effect is greater for firms with higher labour costs, consistent … with the argument that labour scarcity encourages labour-saving innovation in response to demographic shifts. In addition …

productivity of laggard firms, employment, and intensity of skilled workers. Our findings indicate that African firms are improving …

This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on employment adjustment in China. By using detailed Chinese firm …-level data and addressing endogeneity, we find that using industrial robots increases employment within firms, especially when … focusing on the employment of high-educated and high-skilled individuals. We further analyze the mechanisms underlying the …

Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in … enforced remains to be seen. For the time being, de facto employment protection is far less than de jure, with an enduring … wages, nor are they effectively enforced. During the recent slowdown, average wages adjusted rapidly and employment was soon …

liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …

contributes to an economic exposition of China's potential transition from an energy-intensive to an innovation-led growth path … capital investment and incentives of capital stock accumulation rather than R&D-related innovation. Accumulation of energy …-consuming capital stock along this non-innovation-led growth path thus leads to an intensive use of fossil energy - an energy …

investment and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable development holds important implications for both national and … and innovation-driven, environmentally sustainable growth path. We show that if R&D technological innovation is … environmental quality improves at a rate of 2.5%. In contrast, if R&D technological innovation is not harnessed as a new growth …