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This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these … firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to … innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …
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innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … using specific information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation … output. The econometric analysis confirms that product innovations have a positive impact on employment. In contrast to …
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activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The …Extending a recently developed multi-product model and distinguishing between different product and process innovation …
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employment for different types of labour in manufacturing. The empirical model allows for endogeneity of the firm?s innovation … market products is more important than any other measure of product innovation in determining the expected employment … graduates. Joint implementation of new products and new processes have a stronger impact on the employment expectations of …
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This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried … out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering … beneficial product and service innovations create jobs in contrast to process innovations. Employment changes occur in the wake …
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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …
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This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a … quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a positive effect on employment in both growing and … shrinking firms. The impact of innovation on employee headcounts is much stronger in companies that are already experiencing …
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Export is an important factor to improve growth and welfare especially for industrialized small, open economies such as Belgium. Policy may be interested in key variables that can influence export. This paper finds evidence for the importance of R&D for export activities using Belgian firm-level...
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Among available policy levers to boost innovation, investment in applied research organisations has received little … system and merge it with the German contribution to the Community Innovation Survey (CIS), which contains panel information …
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From a firm's perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer …
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