The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the … last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US …&D investment into productivity gains. The proposed microeconometric estimates are based on a unique longitudinal database covering …

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures …

productivity performance of large European R&D Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Based on the worldwide subsidiaries of these firms … from globalisation on firms’ R&D productivity, especially in the US, while a negative impact for industrial diversification …

Companies invest in research and development (R&D) to safeguard their competitive ability and increase productivity … of regional research and innovation systems on a region-by-region basis. The goal should be to reinforce the regional …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

The microeconomic empirical literature devoted to the link between innovation and employment tends to suggest that … in size - positive relationship between innovation and employment. While the links with sales and wages have the expected … investments, as in Italian manufacturing. Applying GMM-SYS to an employment equation augmented for technology and using a unique …

This paper deals with the complex relationship between innovation and the labor market, analyzing the impact of new … technological advancements on overall employment, skills and wages. After a critical review of the extant literature and the …

In this paper, we describe the historical co-evolution of innovation and economic growth in Germany since 1871. The … country's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century, through its innovation and entrepreneurial performance, is … nevertheless a period during which innovation went into relative decline. We document this decline and offer four broad …