Innovation and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-83

  Piva, Mariacristina ^a   Vivarelli, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Employment; GMM SYS; Italian manufacturing; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644433482     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00712-005-0140-z     Document Type: Article

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