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Human Capital, Investment and Innovation: What Are the Connections?

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Nickell, S.
Nicolitsas, D.

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Fingold and Soskice (1988) argue that Britain is trapped in a "low-skills" equilibrium. In Redding (1996), this notion is formalized in a dynamic model which relies on strategic complementarities between firms' investments in R&D and workers' investments in human capital. In this paper, we investigate the firms' side of the story, notably wheher their investments in fixed capital and R&D are influenced by the avilability of human capital.

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Paper provided by Centre for Economic Performance & Institute of Economics in its series Papers with number 20.

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Date of creation: 1997
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Keywords: HUMAN CAPITAL ; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

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J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
O32 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D

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  1. Jirjahn, Uwe & Kraft, Kornelius, 2006. "Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data," ZEW Discussion Papers 06-23, ZEW - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung / Center for European Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
  2. The Treasury, 2001. "Human Capital and the Inclusive Economy," Treasury Working Paper Series 01/16, New Zealand Treasury. [Downloadable!]
  3. Jessica Bennett & Seamus McGuinness, 2005. "Assessing The Impact of Skill Shortages on the Productivity Performance of High-Tech Firms in Northern Ireland," Working Papers ERINI 5, Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland. [Downloadable!]
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