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This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firm-level data for 16 European … differences, it also generates new insights into the heterogeneity of the environmental innovation-employment growth link along … employment growth in European firms. We estimate a gross employment effect of product innovation for both types of product …
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especially from robotisation in manufacturing on employment outside manufacturing. Furthermore, we assess cross-country effects …The impact of robots on employment and trade is a highly discussed topic in the academic and public debates … advantage. We provide evidence on the effects of robots on worldwide employment, including emerging economies. To instrument the …
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There is a substantial heterogeneity in productivity when comparing individual firms. However, even when heterogeneity is found, some questions still remain unaddressed. For instance, when focusing on EU nothing is known about the importance of firms' heterogeneity compared with that of...
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innovation networks in the Eindhoven region in the Netherlands. Previous research showed that these networks contribute to … regional economic development. This paper explores the mechanism through which this happens. Temporary innovation networks may …
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A wide urban-rural disparity is observed in employment growth in the United States. For example, employment growth … examine the sources of U.S. employment growth using the county-level industry data. From an analytical labor-market model, we … derive equilibrium employment growth as a function of growth in neighborhood characteristics and initial conditions such as …
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This paper empirically examines the determinants of corporate environmental product and process innovations. In contrast to previous studies, we use panel data from the ASSET4 and Worldscope databases for firms from 25 European countries between 2004 and 2017. This allows us to control for...
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Using a panel data model, we study the effects of regional and industry-level traits on new business formation (NBF) for 164 industries across 266 Chinese prefectures between 1998 and 2007. The objective is to provide empirical estimates on effects of prefecture traits on entry rates, and in...
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level. Services play a core role in advanced economies, both from a quantitative and a strategic point of view … been simultaneously assessed that services display lower productivity levels and growth rates than other economic … period between 1980 and 2007. The results partially refute traditional knowledge on the productivity of services. Contrary to …
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The regional employment growth in Germany is characterized by huge disparities. Whereas institutional factors might … explain the disparities of employment growth between nations, they can only account for a minor fraction of the regional … employment growth. Instead the sectoral structure of employment is often seen as a major reason for regional disparities. An …
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, diversity, and competition on regional employment dynamics (Glaeser et al. 1992, Henderson et al. 1995, Blien et al. 2006, Fuchs …. Among the plant-specific characteristics, it is mainly plant size, exporting behaviour and R&D / innovation activities that … foster employment. There are also distinctive differences regarding the single sectors. Last but not least, the regional …
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