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The localization of entrepreneurship capital: evidence from Germany
Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - 2007
Whereas initially physical capital and later, knowledge capital were viewed as crucial for growth, more recently a very different factor, entrepreneurship capital, has emerged as a dri-ving force of economic growth. In this paper, we define a region's capacity to create new firms start-ups as...
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Globalization and employment: imported skill biased technological change in developing countries
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - 2007
This paper discusses the impact of the international transfer of embodied technological change on the employment evolution of skills in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). A large body of literature has already underlined the occurrence of widening wage and employment...
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Cooperation behaviour and innovation performance in the Nigerian manufacturing industry
Egbetokun, Abiodun A. - 2012
Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that …
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Waiting for recovery: the Canadian labour market in June 2020
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2020
The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident....
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Distributional consequences of labor demand adjustments to a downturn : a model-based approach with application to Germany 2008 - 09
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2010
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729280
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Non-monotonic employment effects by market structure and minimum wage level
Devereux, Kevin; Studnicka, Zuzanna - 2024
Minimum wages decrease employment in competitive markets, but can increase it in monopsonistic markets so long as they do not exceed the marginal product of labour. We find evidence of non-monotonicity both by market structure and minimum wage level. Minimum wage hikes initially increase hours...
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Patent citations, university inventor patents, and survival in the German laser source industry (1960-2005)
Medrano, Luis F. - 2012
The relationship between innovation and firm survival is analyzed for the population of German laser source producers … from the beginning of the industry until 2005. Innovation effort is approximated by the generation of high quality patents …
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Did bank lending stifle innovation in Europe during the great recession?
Peia, Oana; Romelli, Davide - 2019
external finance, to identify a causal effect of bank credit supply on firm investment in innovation. We show that firms that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137482
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The selective nature of innovator networks: From the nascent to the early growth phase of the organizational life cycle
Cantner, Uwe; Wolf, Tina - 2016
Earlier studies have shown that entrepreneurs play a key role in shaping regional development. Innovator networks where these entrepreneurs are members of have been identified as one among many critical factors for their firms' success. This paper intents to go one step further and analyses in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580462
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The compositional nature of productivity and innovation slowdown
Cantner, Uwe; Graf, Holger; Prytkova, Ekaterina; … - 2018
analysis with evidence on innovation slowdown trends, looking at aggregate and compositional trends. We explore the innovation … occurrence. Eventually, we relate productivity and innovation slowdowns deriving tables of trends co-movements, weighted by input …
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