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Entrepreneurship in Advanced and Developing Countries : A Microeconomic Perspective

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...

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Innovation and the Labor Market : Theory, Evidence and Challenges

Corrocher, Nicoletta; Moschella, Daniele; Staccioli, Jacopo - 2023

This paper deals with the complex relationship between innovation and the labor market, analyzing the impact of new …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348234

Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries : A Survey of the Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...

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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries

Quatraro, Francesco - 2013

The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the "state of the art" in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic...

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The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries

Lee, Eddy; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021

In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI. A general result is that the optimistic Heckscher-Ohlin/Stolper-Samuelson predictions do not apply, that is neither employment creation nor the decrease in within-country...

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Globalization and Employment : Imported Skill Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct...

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Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Cooperation of UK Firms : A Regional Investigation

Iammarino, Simona - 2009

innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region …. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community Innovation Survey (CIS), provide new insights regarding the relationship … between cooperative linkages for innovation and the development of technological capabilities by business units. Firstly, the …

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Is R&D Good for Employment? Microeconometric Evidence from the EU

Piva, Mariacristina - 2017

Using a unique firm-level database comprising the top European R&D investors over the period 2002-2013 and running LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labour-friendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment effect appears limited in magnitude and entirely due to...

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Does Easy Start-Up Formation Hamper Incumbents' R&D Investment? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

Colombo, Luca - 2015

Community Innovation Survey covering the period 1998-2000. The results of our empirical analysis support our theory …

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Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms' Entry, Survival and Growth

Santarelli, Enrico; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021

This survey paper aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of new-born firms. The basic purpose is to single out the microeconomic entrepreneurial foundations of industrial dynamics (entry and exit) and to characterise the founder's...

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