This study's main objective is assessing the effects of innovation on firms' employment growth. Further, we aimed to … employment and contributes to the improvement of job quality. Specifically, product and marketing innovations emerge as important … tools for increasing employment in Ecuador. Moreover, product innovation favors high-skilled over low-skilled work- ers …

public sector units in 1991. Since then, per capita output has increased significantly, while the overall unemployment rate … unemployment remains stubbornly high, an overwhelming proportion of the labor force continues to work in the informal sector, and …

This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if … Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions do not affect wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, then reservation wages do … not bind on average. Then, UI extensions affect mean wages only through unemployment durations and are valid instrumental …