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The patterns and mechanisms of job creation in business services are investigated in this article by considering the role of innovation, demand, wages and the composition of employment by professional groups. A model is developed and an empirical test is carried out with parallel analyses on a...
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This paper examines the question, whether the growing use of new technologies and decentralized forms of work … management practices that encourage firms to combine the use of new technologies and organizational forms with an ageing …
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In this paper I propose a novel abstract mechanism for the creation and diffusion of knowledge and use an agent based … explain and the stocks of knowledge available in a society, be it individually or collectively. I find that the aggregate … number of knowledge units in a society increases more slowly, the more naive its inhabitants are. I also find that the …
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different locations in the knowledge space. Social capital is ignored, and firms ally purely on the basis of knowledge … intensity of cooperation and innovation. Within different knowledge regimes, we examine the structure of networks that emerge … which are generally robust to changes in the knowledge regime. Second, subject to the extent of knowledge spillovers …
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This paper proposes to explain the productivity growth slowdown with the poaching of disruptive inventors by firms these inventors threaten with their research. I build an endogenous growth model with incremental and disruptive innovation and an inventor labor market where this defensive...
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the decline in productivity growth as the result of large firms trying to monopolize technologies by poaching inventors …
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This paper examines the question, whether the growing use of new technologies and decentralized forms of work … management practices that encourage firms to combine the use of new technologies and organizational forms with an ageing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390615
The extent to which firms respond to labor supply shocks has important implications for local and national economies. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the large, low-skill labor supply (immigration) shock generated...
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The extent to which firms respond to labor supply shocks has important implications for local and national economies. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the large, low-skill labor supply (immigration) shock generated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947625
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