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Inflation heterogeneity at the household level
Strasser, Georg; Messner, Teresa; Rumler, Fabio; … - 2023
Inflation affects the purchasing power of households. This paper documents large, idiosyncratic inflation differences between households in their everyday shopping. Low-income households have experienced higher inflation in the last ten years, but the difference for richer households has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374703
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What are service sector innovations and how do we measure them?
Szczygielski, Krzysztof - 2011
Services dominate all advanced economies but service innovations are still an underresearched topic. One of the reasons are definitional and measurement difficulties. The goal of the paper is to highlight those by reviewing recent literature and to assess the current state of knowledge and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430870
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Innovation and the growth of service firms: The Polish case
Szczygielski, Krzysztof; Grabowski, Wojciech; Woodward, … - 2013
investigated the link between innovation performance and employment growth. First we discuss the problem from the theoretical point … of view and then we analyze the relationship between innovation performance and the dynamics of employment in the Polish … the impact of innovation on employment growth depends on the macroeconomic situation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430903
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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698346
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The Effects of Production Offshoring on R&D and Innovation in the Home Country
Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2013
A strong innovation performance based on R&D, product development and the implementation of advanced production … offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … manufacturing firms from seven European countries. We employ propensity score matching to compare R&D and innovation activities of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345643
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The innovation patterns of firms in low and high technology manufacturing sectors in the new member states
Balcerowicz, Ewa; Pęczkowski, Marek; Wziątek-Kubiak, Anna - 2009
development of these countries. This paper aims to show the differences in innovation patterns among manufacturing firms operating … into account innovation inputs, cooperation among firms in R&D activities, the benefits of cooperation with business … partners, innovation outputs and international competitiveness. The sample consisted of 358 firms operating in both low and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430829
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Differentiation of innovation behavior of manufacturing firms in the new member states: Cluster analysis on firm-level data
Wziątek-Kubiak, Anna; Balcerowicz, Ewa; Pęczkowski, Marek - 2009
This paper investigates the differences in innovation behaviour, i.e. differences in innovation sources and innovation … into account: innovation inputs in enterprises, cooperation among firms in R&D activities, the benefits of cooperation with … business partners and innovation effects (innovation outputs and international competitiveness of firms' products and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430837
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Innovation, labour demand and wages in Poland: Some introductory results using micro-macro data
Walewski, Mateusz - 2009
There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most of the results indicating positive effects. Thus far, this kind of analysis has not been performed for Poland and it seems to be an important and interesting field for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430839
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Complementarities between barriers to innovation: Data evidence from Poland
Wziątek-Kubiak, Anna; Pęczkowski, Marek; Balcerowicz, Ewa - 2010
This paper investigates the barriers to innovation perceived by Polish manufacturing firms. It refers to the … heterogeneity of innovation active firms. We introduce a taxonomy of innovative firms based on the frequency with which they … introduce commercialised innovations using data from both CIS4 (for 2002-2004) and CIS5 (2004-2006). Two groups of innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430863
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Distinguishing persistent from occasional innovators: The case of Polish manufacturing firms
Wziątek-Kubiak, Anna; Pęczkowski, Marek - 2010
This paper uses obstacles to innovation to investigate the heterogeneity of Polish innovating firms. Based on the … distinguishes between two groups of innovating firms: those which introduced innovation in both periods covered by both CIS (called … persistent innovators) and those which introduced innovation either in CIS4 or CIS5 (occasional innovators). Two steps analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430866