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This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata … demonstrate that employment growth is explained by product innovation. On the other hand, we find no evidence of a displacement … from a survey on innovation conducted in Bolivia in 2016. Following the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters …
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While an increasing number of conceptual studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have …' participation in initial VET on their innovation outcomes. The results based on linear probability models and instrumental variable … regressions with entropy balancing show that the impact of VET activity on innovation is more ambiguous than postulated. Overall …
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microeconomic issue and investigates the linkage between aging workers and employment growth. More precisely, it aims to analyse the … potential effect that age composition of a firm's workforce may have on a firm's employment growth. The study applies a linked … techniques to address the aging effect in the context of "extreme" employment growth events. The empirical investigation shows …
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The aim of this paper is to show possible consequences of changes in labor force participation of women and the connection between fertility and labor force participation on the future demographic and economic development in Germany. For this purpose a projection model based on micro-data...
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Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...
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demographic change on innovation, captured on corporate and regional level, this means the relationship between diversity and … innovation variables is examined in a micro-economic and a macro-economic approach. The aim is to summarize and to highlight …
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}. We present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide …
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Firms in younger labor markets produce more innovation. We establish this by instrumenting the current labor force with … unobservable heterogeneity across local labor markets and firms, life cycles, and other effects. Corporate innovation in younger … as a group – inventors interacting with non-inventors – produce more innovation for firms through the labor supply …
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Long-term labour market projections are a popular tool for assessing future skill needs and the possibility of skill shortages. It is often noted that reallocation processes in the German labour market are hindered due to its strong standardization and occupational segmentation. However, it is...
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employment in the coming decade. Much of what the previous government's "Agenda 2010" has put into motion has clearly steered … question, further action is necessary. The IZA concept includes the following elements: (1) Education reform: Early childhood … education must be improved. Social background should no longer determine future career prospects. More independence and …
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