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The growth in electricity consumption and the resulting pollution suggests the need to incorporate clean energy sources. Currently, technological advancement is affected by a series of barriers that prevent the adoption of wind energy and solar photovoltaic energy. This research identifies the...
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of marketing in depth in this context. We predominantly utilized the database from Ecuador's 2013 National Survey of … tools for increasing employment in Ecuador. Moreover, product innovation favors high-skilled over low-skilled work- ers …
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previously analysed: Mexico and Ecuador. Following the method proposed by Harrison et al. (2014), we find that introducing new … products in the market positively affects employment in Mexico and Ecuador. While process innovation tends to destroy jobs in … Mexico, it has no effect in the case of Ecuador. The positive impact of product innovation is observed to be greater than the …
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Current explanations why a growing economy necessarily goes through booms and recessions predict countercyclical R&D investment. As this is very controversial from an empirical perspective, a stochastic Poissonmodel of endogenous business cycles and growth is presented where the determinants of...
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We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...
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