R&D and employment: An application of the LSDVC estimator using European microdata

Economics Letters

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 56-59

  Bogliacino, Francesco ^a   Piva, Mariacristina ^b   Vivarelli, Marco ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Employment; Innovation; LSDVC; Services

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856774361     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.01.010     Document Type: Article

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