? How are wages determined? What role do labor market dynamics play in explaining business cycles and growth? The survey …

productivity growth, i.e. “bad times,” increase the political support for more labor market rigidity only where labor appropriates …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output … growth. A summary of what we learn from the econometric results concludes the paper. …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e. the ‘control … growth and produce and commercialize high quality innovations. They are more satisfied than employees. More importantly …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …

capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …The innovative approach presented introduces a modified neoclassical growth model which includes a new bias of … technological progress in a quasi-endogenous growth model in which part of labor is used in the research & development sector. The …

less likely to get involved in innovation. In an extended model of firm growth determinants that includes innovation … foster innovation activities in small enterprises? Do innovators create more jobs? We use a large set of microenterprises … training is found to have a strong effect on the innovation activity. However, firms owned by female and old entrepreneurs are …