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tools for increasing employment in Ecuador. Moreover, product innovation favors high-skilled over low-skilled work- ers …This study's main objective is assessing the effects of innovation on firms' employment growth. Further, we aimed to … innovation were considered-namely, product, process, organizational, and marketing. This is the first study to evaluate the role …
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To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly French macro-economic data are carried out in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors....
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This study investigates the effect of broadband internet availability on German establishments’ employment growth. The database used is a random sample of business establishments, augmented by the local availability of broadband. The observation period is 2005–2010, when broadband was...
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employment for different types of labour in manufacturing. The empirical model allows for endogeneity of the firm's innovation … market products is more important than any other measure of product innovation in determining the expected employment …
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Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data with firm-level information on value added, factor inputs and broadband adoption to answer these questions....
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This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
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rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …
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dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by … product innovation may be offset by employment losses in related products, known as 'cannibalisation' or 'business stealing …' effects in the literature, by employment losses from process and organisational innovation and by general productivity …
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This paper estimates the association between innovation and employment growth among manufacturing firms in Africa. The … paper uses a cross-sectional World Bank Enterprise Survey dataset in which innovation is categorised as product innovation … and process innovation. Results from the pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation are more efficient compared to IV …
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