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This position paper outlines the characteristics of the trends at stake in affecting the twin transition in the European automotive industry, and the political economy of the actors behind such transition. We first describe the automation and digitalization processes in the automotive sector and...
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of growth. Second, we provide an overview of the literature on sectoral innovation patterns as well as of recent evidence … final part we present productivity decompositions using a sectoral innovation taxonomy to study the contribution of … different groups of activities characterized by heterogeneous innovation patterns. Our results suggest that structural change …
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This paper investigates firm-level dynamics of labour productivity in China's manufacturing sector over the 1998-2007. Underlying the aggregate evidence of dramatic growth of labour productivity, one observes a large, even if shrinking, intra-sectoral heterogeneity. A major process of both...
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the relation between the introduction of innovation and subsequent firm growth in terms of sales. Recent contributions … examining the returns to innovation on firm performance have stressed the need of going beyond the analysis of the "average … adopt quantile treatment effects (QTE) which allow to estimate the effect of the introduction of innovation by comparing …
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innovation, trying to map - using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - the concrete ways through which a … into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technological … transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of sectoral …
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In this contribution we offer a broad overview of the technological, institutional and policy dynamics associated with the great transformation - borrowing Karl Polanyi (1944) expression - leading from traditional, mostly rural, economies to economies driven by industrial activities (and...
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This paper highlights new findings on the wage-productivity nexus in the World Factory Economy. After presenting the long-run macro-elasticity characterizing the phase of Chinese economic development since the eighties, we look at the wage-productivity nexus from a micro level perspective using...
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This paper studies the causal relations between regional employment growth in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and overall regional employment growth using German labour-market data for the period 1999-2012. Adopting a recently developed technique, we are able to estimate a...
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the fundamental (and still poorly understood) role played by innovation in the finance-growth nexus. …
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statistically significant evidence of the expected labor-friendly nature of innovation. More in detail, neither R&D nor investment …
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