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Innovation and employment growth : evidence from manufacturing firms in Africa
Okumu, Ibrahim Mike; Bbaale, Edward; Guloba, Madina Mwagale - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 8 (2019) 7, pp. 1-27
This paper estimates the association between innovation and employment growth among manufacturing firms in Africa. The … although it is conditioned on firm size. Such findings suggest that employment growth in Africa could benefit from policies and … potential of innovation to enhance employment growth in Africa. …
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Technology, Trade, and Income Distribution in West Germany : A Factor-Share Analysis, 1976-1994
Welsch, Heinz - 2005
This paper examines the determinants of functional income distribution in West Germany. The approach is to estimate a complete system of factor share equations for low-skilled labor, high-skilled labor, capital, energy, and materials, taking account of biased technological progress and...
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Premature deindustrialization and income inequality in middle-income countries
Ravindran, Rekha; Babu, Suresh M - 2021
This paper examines the income inequality implications of a 'premature deindustrialization' trend in middle-income countries. To identify the premature deindustrialization phase, we arrive at five conditions based on the trends in employment and value-added share of manufacture. Among these five...
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The impact of trade on wage inequality in developing countries : technology vs. comparative advantage
Scholl, Nathalie - 2015
Since the expansion of world trade in the 1980s, measures of inequality have risen not only in developed countries, but also throughout the developing world. This stylized fact is contrary to the predictions of classical trade theory that in countries with high endowments of unskilled labor,...
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Trade and the Skill Premium in Developing Countries : The Role of Intermediate Goods and Some Evidence from Peru
Mazumdar, Joy; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam - 2014
The rise in income inequality in developing countries after trade liberalization has been a puzzle for trade theory, which predicts the opposite effect. The authors present a model with imported intermediate goods in which the relative wages of skilled labor can rise due to higher imports of...
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Assessing the distributive effects of minimum wage
Borraz, Fernando; González Pampillón, Nicolás - 2017
This paper analyzes the role of Uruguay's sharp minimum wage increases after 2004 amidst the country's slight wage inequality decrease. We found that the minimum wage increase has contributed to the reduction of wage inequality for formal workers mainly. However, we also found a negative impact...
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Assessing the distributive effects of minimum wage
Borraz, Fernando; González Pampillón, Nicolás - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924641
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Behavioral effects of a federal minimum wage and income inequality in Germany : conference paper
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
Empirical studies on minimum wages are primarily concerned with employment while their effects on income inequality receive less attention. Yet, a popular argument for a federal minimum wage in Germany is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We examine this...
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Innovation and employment in patenting firms : empirical evidence from Europe
Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which...
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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration : the case of occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
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