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We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …
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We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348039
We do two things in this paper. First, we put forward some elements of a microeconomic theory of technological evolution. This involves adding nascent (essentially undiscovered) technologies to the existing technologies of neoclassical production theory, and, more importantly, expanding the...
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of positive effects emerge. With respect to takeovers of German companies by foreign investors, the productivity and … international, we find positive productivity and sales effects for relatively small companies investing abroad, and this …
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Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low … between labour productivity and wages in the Argentine manufacturing sector? Does it differ across techno-productive classes … from 2010 to 2016, we perform quantile regression estimates to evaluate the link between productivity and wages across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013465158
Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low … between labour productivity and wages in the Argentine manufacturing sector? Does it differ across techno-productive classes … from 2010 to 2016, we perform quantile regression estimates to evaluate the link between productivity and wages across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229653
In order to create a value-oriented model of the innovation system of an industrial region, the article compiles a linear functional of the value of an innovation-industrial cluster for a region. Decomposition for this purpose of two-phase multiples of book value and revenue into fundamental...
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Inclusive development is a key policy priority since growth processes have not always helped lowerincome groups. Innovation is a major driver of growth and its relationship with inequalities in income and opportunities raises some important policy questions: Do innovation and the resulting...
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This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in … focuses on the impact of R&D and patents on firms’ performance and productivity, we examine data on actual investment … achieved higher productivity, and these estimated quantitative effects are greater than the impact of standard innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026309
This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in … focuses on the impact of R&D and patents on firms’ performance and productivity, we examine data on actual investment … achieved higher productivity, and these estimated quantitative effects are greater than the impact of standard innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045552