energy and less labour. Patent applications in energy- and labour-saving technology fields are used to model the direction of … proxies for the level of technology. Upon finding that they were indeed energy and labour saving over our sample period, we …

We survey recent microeconometric research on investment and employment that has used panel data on individual firms or … topics that have been the focus of recent microeconometric research on investment and employment. In particular, we review … and uncertainty, investment in research and development (R&D), elasticities of substitution and complementarity between …

and that geography matters in determining the role of the external technology. Moreover, we find that the effect of R …

). We focus on over 70 empirical studies that have used direct measures of technology (rather than associating technology … and measurement. Our survey comes to the following tentative conclusions: (i) there is a strong effect of technology on …

investments, as in Italian manufacturing. Applying GMM-SYS to an employment equation augmented for technology and using a unique …

between labor of different skills (tasks) on the one hand, and technology as well as outsourcing on the other. Our findings …

call technology shifters (economic factors). We use several composite technology indices based on appropriate combinations … of the external economic factors which are indicators of different aspects of technology. These technology indices are … specific external economic factors. Furthermore, the technology shifters allow for non-neutral and biased shifts in TC. We also …

This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has … between productivity and exports, and exploiting heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant communities in the United …

This paper analyses the nature of knowledge spillovers from research and development (R&D) in the field of liquid … crystal display technology by estimating the impact of inventors' changing organizational and collaborative affiliations on …. It is argued that technology policy towards a particular industry must take the role of inventors' mobility in …