Using panel data for German and Dutch firms from the services sector, this paper analyses the importance of ICT capital … deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … technological innovations on a more permanent basis. Moreover, the joint impact of ICT use and permanent technological innovation on …

productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is …

-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system … firms can be classified as non-efficient in their production process. The production scale of many manufacturing firms is … too small to be considered technically efficient, while services firms typically use excessive resources in their …

-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system … firms can be classified as non-efficient in their production process. The production scale of many manufacturing firms is … too small to be considered technically efficient, while services firms typically use excessive resources in their …

This paper analyses the potential employment effects of foreign direct investment in the Swiss services industry. First …, the theoretical analysis considers the consequences on domestic employment resulting from the specific characteristics of … services compared with those of industrial goods. It is demonstrated that conventional research in this field systematically …

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service … the share of service-related jobs in total employment. Although converging in all European countries, a significant gap in … achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may have hindered …

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service … the share of service-related jobs in total employment. Although converging in all European countries, a significant gap in … achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may have hindered …

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …

types of product and process innovation on employment growth with an outlook on the whole conditional employment growth … innovation, the introduction of novel auxiliary processes appears to be more positively linked with employment growth. …This work studies the firm-level relationship between different types of innovative activities and employment growth …

Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to establish a formal relationship between innovation and performance … using Colombian firm-level data. We find that, as predicted by the literature, the production of goods and services new to … the firm and to the domestic market enhances firms´ productivity and sales. In the same way, innovation in management and …