This paper deals with the heterogeneous employment outcome at the plant level in Swedish manufacturing over the period … 1972-96. Non-negligible gross flows of jobs is found to be a pronounced feature in Swedish manufacturing, but as compared … movement. Little of the observed heterogeneity in the plant-level employment outcome can be explained by easily observable …

required labour per unit of output, technology has not reduced the aggregate employment in the Indian manufacturing sector … trade and technology in the mid-1980s. In this paper, we examine the impact of technology on employment and skill demand … within the Indian manufacturing sector. Estimating a dynamic labour demand equation, we find that that despite reducing the …

This paper estimates the association between innovation and employment growth among manufacturing firms in Africa. The … and process innovation. Results from the pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation are more efficient compared to IV … 2SLS. The pooled OLS results indicate that: (1) employment growth is positively associated with both process and product …

In order to account for the evolution of employment at the macro-economic level, we have developed a model wherein … employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly French macro-economic data … are carried out in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors. We obtain a relationship in which employment rises …