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trade and technology in the mid-1980s. In this paper, we examine the impact of technology on employment and skill demand … required labour per unit of output, technology has not reduced the aggregate employment in the Indian manufacturing sector …Indian manufacturers have invested significantly in technology upgradations since the economy opened up to foreign …
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The authors present a comparative analysis of employment determination in four transition economies as they moved from …, Poland, and Slovakia to estimate dynamic employment equations for the period immediately before and after the start of … transition. For the most part, firms appear to have been quick to adjust employment to wage levels, and there is little evidence …
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This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...
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The literature on skill-biased technological change concentrates on highly skilled and unskilled employees. It is … unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from …
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The literature on skill-biased technological change concentrates on highly skilled and unskilled employees. It is … unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany - employees with a degree …
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We provide a novel evidence about the innovation-employment nexus by decomposing it by R&D intensity in a continuous … relationship between the R&D-driven innovation and firm employment as well as address important econometric issues, which is not … innovation and employment entails important non-linearities responsible for significant differences in employment response to …
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The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro …&D investment and firm employment, and to address important econometric issues, which is not possible in the standard estimation … innovation by 1% may increase employment up to 0.7%. The job creation effect of innovation reaches its peak when R&D intensity is …
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The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro … the R&D investment and firm employment, and to address important econometric issues, which is not possible in the standard …: increasing innovation by 1% may increase employment up to 0.7%. The job creation effect of innovation reaches its peak when the R …
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innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … using specific information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation … output. The econometric analysis confirms that product innovations have a positive impact on employment. In contrast to …
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