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"How and to what extent does organized labour contribute to shaping firms' competitive strategies by fostering innovation and investments in R&D? Drawing on insights from evolutionary theories and industrial relations studies, this paper empirically investigates how firm-level collective bargaining impacts firms' investments in intangible assets, including R&D. The paper underlines how in the workplace context, where workers and managers pursue conflicting interests, the presence of a strong trade union able to bargain can empower workers' voice and persuade management to invest in innovation related assets rather than compete through cost cutting strategies. We leverage a comprehensive and representative survey of Italian non-agricultural companies conducted by the National Institute for Public Policy Analysis to test these predictions. Baseline estimates indicate that firm-level bargaining, particularly in highly unionized firms, is linked to investments in R&D and other intangibles. Further analysis suggests that work organization clauses are key drivers of this positive relationship."

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"Key figures on Europe presents a selection of statistical data on Europe. Most data cover the European Union and its Member States, while some indicators are provided for other countries, such as members of EFTA, candidate countries to the European Union, Japan or the United States. The main chapters of this pocketbook cover the following areas: population; living conditions and social protection; health; education and training; labour market; economy and finance; international trade; agriculture, forestry and fisheries; industry, trade and services; research and communication; environment; energy; and transport. This pocketbook, which presents a subset of the most popular information found in the continuously updated online publication Europe in figures – Eurostat yearbook (available through http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained), may be viewed as an introduction to European statistics and provides guidance to the vast range of data freely available from the Eurostat website. "

"This extensive pocketbook on candidate countries and potential candidate countries covers the years 2000 to 2009 and contains tables and graphs on demography, education, social conditions and labour force, national accounts and finance, agriculture, energy, industry, construction and services, transport, communications and information society, as well as external trade, research and development and environment. A short commentary on the data and methodological notes are also included. "

"This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two issues neglected in the existing literature—the role of multinationals in service sectors and the importance of R&D activity conducted by foreign multinationals. We review existing theoretical and empirical work, which largely focuses on manufacturing, before presenting new evidence using establishment-level data on production, service, and R&D activity for Great Britain. We find that multinationals play an important role in service sectors and that entry of foreign multinationals by takeover is more prevalent than greenfield investment. We find that British multinationals have lower levels of labour productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and that British multinationals have lower levels of investment and intermediate use per employee. We also find that foreign-owned multinationals conduct a substantial amount of British R&D. We discuss the implications of these and other findings for the policy debate on incentives to influence multinational firms' location choices."