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Is R&D good for employment? : microeconometric evidence from the EU

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

Using a unique firm-level database comprising the top European R&D investors over the period 2002-2013 and running LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labour-friendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment effect appears limited in magnitude and entirely due to...

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Sectoral cognitive skills, R&D, and productivity : a cross-country cross-sector analysis

Sasso, Simone; Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2016

We focus on human capital measured by education outcomes (skills) and establish the relationship between human capital … recent literature has relied on school attainment rather than on skills. By making use of data on adult cognitive skills from … capital defined as the average cognitive skills in the workforce of each country-sector combination. Our results show a strong …

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Skill, innovation and wage inequality : can immigrants be the Trump Card?

Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata; Kar, Mausumi - 2019

With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while...

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