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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297743
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New technologies and the demand for medium qualified labour in Germany
Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297747
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The impact of energy prices on green innovation: Study on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Ley, Marius; Stucki, Tobias; Woerter, Martin - 2013
industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and … green innovation activities are positively related and that energy prices have a significantly positive impact on the ratio … lag between energy prices and innovation activities. Robustness tests confirm the main results. …
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Differential Impact of Environmental Policy Instruments on Technological Change: A Review of the Empirical Literature
Vollebergh, Herman R.J. - 2006
recent literature is that there is a clear impact of environmental policy on invention, innovation and diffusion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325490
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Technology and the economy
Dosi, Giovanni; Orsenigo, Luigi; Sylos Labini, Mauro - 2002
discusses some of the interpretative achievements stemming from e.g. the economics of innovation, industrial economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328380
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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
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Determinants of growth and convergence in a growing economy with heterogeneous entrepreneurs
Dohse, Dirk; Ott, Ingrid - 2008
We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and convergence. Our work is closely related to the model by Acemoglu et al. (2006) but extends their analysis in some important respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263536
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A Century of Rice Innovations
Halos, Saturnina C. - 2005
Rice innovations are technologies and practices extensively adopted so as to change production practices and productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies the technological change that may have affected rice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429809
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Innovation, employment and skills in advanced and developing countries: A survey of the literature
Vivarelli, Marco - 2012
This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282387
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Fueling growth when oil peaks: Directed technological change and the limits to efficiency
André, Francisco J.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012
While fossil energy dependency has declined and energy supply has grown in the postwar world economy, future resource scarcity could cast its shadow on world economic growth soon if energy markets are forward looking. We develop an endogenous growth model that reconciles the current aggregate...
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