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Examining the Factors Influencing Environmental Innovations
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - 2006
Technological innovation is a key factor for achieving a better environmental performance of firms and the economy as a …/effluents associated to outputs. Environmental innovation may spur from exogenous driving forces, like policy intervention, and/or from … order to assess what forces are lying behind environmental innovation at the level of the firm, where innovative practices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312290
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Environmental innovations, local networks and internationalization
Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro - 2011
This paper investigates the drivers of the environmental innovations (EI) introduced by firms in local production systems (LPS). The role of firm network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies is analysed for a sample of 555 firms in the Emilia-Romagna region,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279508
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232079
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507670
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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 environment and directed technical change
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Bursztyn, Leonardo; … - 2010
dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both 'carbon taxes' and research subsidies, so that excessive … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272399
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Optimal Clean Energy R&D Investments Under Uncertainty
Marangoni, Giacomo; De Maere, Gauthier; Bosetti, Valentina - 2017
produced by climate-economy models while introducing the dimension of uncertainty in innovation ef- forts, without succumbing … evaluating optimal near-term innovation investment portfolios in four key clean energy technologies (solar, biofuels … innovation to improve the performance of these technologies. We employ an IAM (WITCH) which has a fairly rich description of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662426
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Local labor market impacts of advanced manufacturing technologies : evidence from European NUTS-3 regions
Orsatti, Gianluca; Quatraro, Francesco - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387684
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Firms' international status and heterogeneity in performance: Evidence from Italy
Casaburi, Lorenzo; Gattai, Valeria; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2008
This paper revisits the empirical evidence about the link between firms' performance and their international status, based on a large sample of Italian enterprises. To this purpose, we merged two waves of the Capitalia survey (1998-2000, and 2001-2003) retrieving firm level data for roughly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270935