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The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at … firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the …
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The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm … different classifications of innovation. The analyses are performed in both level and growth rate dimensions. The overall …. -- Knowledge capital ; productivity ; innovation ; manufacturing ; services ; knowledge intensity ; Community Innovation Survey …
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This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in …, differs in a number of ways from much of the previous cross-country comparisons on the relationship between innovation and … productivity using firm-level data. First, a broader definition of innovation input is used in which research and development is …
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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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Evolutionary theories of economic change identify the processes of idiosyncratic learning by individual firms and of market selection as the two main drivers of the dynamics of industries. Are such processes able to robustly account for the statistical regularities which industrial structures...
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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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In this article we focus on the role of exports in Chinese economic development in the era of WTO accession. We address a series of different, although connected, questions. First, do Chinese exporting and non-exporting firms differ in terms of their productivity performance and paid wages?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389338
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986753
Evolutionary theories of economic change identify the processes of idiosyncratic learning by individual firms and of market selection as the two main drivers of the dynamics of industries. Are such processes able to robustly account for the statistical regularities which industrial structures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502702
In this article we focus on the role of exports in Chinese economic development in the era of WTO accession. We address a series of different, although connected, questions. First, do Chinese exporting and non-exporting firms differ in terms of their productivity performance and paid wages?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267971