Employment effects of innovation at the firm level

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 227, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 254-272

  Lachenmaier, Stefan ^a,b   Rottmann, Horst ^a,b  

^a University of Munich ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Employment; Firm size; Innovation; Panel data; Patent

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349023292     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2007-0304     Document Type: Article

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