unit root, we study the causality links between energy use and employment for a sample of 16 African countries over the … 1991-2010 period (according to availability of countries' data) in a panel Vector AutoRegressive model. Our results … indicate that employment and energy use are strongly linked in Africa. Unidirectional causality from employment to energy use …

say about its impact on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and measure electrification … industry level, electrification drove 15.7% of the decline in the share of agricultural employment and 28.4% of the increase in …Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. Developing countries …

on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and measure electrification with the length of …Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. What was its impact … higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for electrification using hydro-electric potential, we find that the average …

The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … terms. It uses novel data on the universe of domestic applicants to tens of thousands of farm jobs in the state of North … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …

The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro …-econometric analysis is based on a large international panel data set from the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. Employing flexible …&D investment and firm employment, and to address important econometric issues, which is not possible in the standard estimation …

This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically … associated with employment growth. Process innovations may have a positive effect, but also have the potential to reduce the …

The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro …-econometric analysis is based on a large international panel data set from the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. Employing flexible … the R&D investment and firm employment, and to address important econometric issues, which is not possible in the standard …