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Productivity spill-overs within firms have commonly been used as a proxy measure for organizational learning. Using novel data from more than 200 production lines in three garment factories in Bangladesh, this paper extends the evidence on such productivity spill-over in two directions. First, I...
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A new wave of innovation is beginning to disrupt industry on a global scale. It constitutes a tremendous opportunity …. Academic research and the public debate have focused mostly on the threat that innovation poses to jobs and wages. This paper …. While some jobs will be displaced, the greatest impact of innovation will come in the way that many jobs will be transformed …
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The wave of digital-industrial innovation which begins to disrupt vast sectors of the global economy has fueled fear of … promote digital innovation and facilitate the adoption of skills-augmenting technologies, and strengthened private sector …
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persist. Private spending on innovation is very low and Russia underperforms in terms of scientific outputs and patents …. Support for low-tech innovation and technology adoption, especially among SMEs is narrow because of a bias towards large and …
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Productivity levels and growth are extremely heterogeneous among firms. A vast literature has developed to explain the origins of productivity shocks, their dispersion, evolution and their relationship to the business cycle. We examine in detail the distribution of labor productivity levels and...
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Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in …
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explained by business dynamics, innovation, human capital and the level of entrepreneurship in each region. Findings The results …. In addition, the stock of human capital and the promotion of innovation act as catalysts for the productive efficiency of … businesses must also be oriented towards sectors that promote technological innovation and with the objective to reach an …
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There is a large consensus among social researchers on the positive role played by human capital on economic performances. The standard way to measure the human capital endowment is to consider the educational attainments by the resident population, usually the share of people with a university...
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The productivity-enhancing effects of digitalisation have generated increased interest in the promotion of digital technologies. This report provides different estimations for euro area countries of the impact of digital uptake on productivity at firm level, showing that the adoption of digital...
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Medical innovation enhances labor health, promotes human capital productivity, and influences asset prices. Using a … manually collected dataset on drug approvals to identify medical innovation, I first confirm its direct impact on human capital … -- a higher medical innovation shock predicts a higher growth of hours worked and total factor productivity, and firms with …
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