Maria Carmen Cuerva

University of Castilla-La Mancha · Applied Ecomomics

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the factors influencing the adoption of environmental innovations towards a circular economy (CE) by the EU firms, with special focus on technological capabilities and external support. A multivariate probit model is specified to allow the distinction between three types of eco‐innovative practices: Reduce, R...

This paper focuses on the association between the probability and the number of green jobs at the firm level and the circular economy (CE) strategies related to the 4Rs approach (reduce, reuse, recycle and redesign) implemented by companies located in the European Union. Factors related to resources and technological and organizational capabilities...

The present paper analyses the factors associated with intensity in resource efficiency practices of European SMEs, considering four categories of firms according to their level of investment (very low, low, medium and high). Based on the stakeholder theory, we estimate a generalised ordinal logistic model which allows us to analyse the relationshi...

Numerous empirical studies focus on the drivers of environmental innovation or their potential employment effects. Nevertheless, we have scarce knowledge about whether factors that influence eco-innovation and employment generation are related. The main purpose is to analyze the synergies between eco-innovation and employment using a sample of more...

The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the influence of previous experience and learning capabilities on survival in product and process innovation for Spanish manufacturing firms in the period 1990-2010. The authors find past and path dependence and confirm the important effect of R&D effort in both types of innovation. Nevertheless, for pro...

Improving waste management strategies with a more collaborative participation and responsibility of different public and private agents is a matter of increasing concern for academia and policy makers. Based on data from 28 European countries, the present study, unlike other previous studies analyzing the influence of individual drivers for waste g...

This paper estimates the effect of persistence of innovation on employment in Spanish manufacturing firms during the period 1990-2008. Using GMM-system estimations, we study the importance of persistence of product and process innovation on employment growth according to the size of the firms. The results support that process innovation shows a pos...

This paper measures the level of persistence in innovation using a large representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms for the period 1990–2008. We determine survival in innovation activities using discrete-time duration models, which control for some of the existing problems in the continuous-time duration models used in previous studies (n...

The authors examine the differences in the behavior of the innovation between the Spanish agrifood and manufacturing firms using firm-level data from 1990–2008 to analyze the persistence in innovation and to explore the explanatory determinants of the probability of being product and process innovator. Survival functions, transition probability mat...

This paper contributes to the empirical literature about the main drivers of eco-innovation in small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). In particular, we analyze the differences between the factors influencing “green” and/or “non-green” innovations for SME in a Low-Tech sector based on quantitative analysis. A questionnaire is carried out in the...

The EU agriculture, in spite of the market integration process, shows important differences in terms of productivity and efficiency. It is thus important to determine whether there is a convergence process in agricultural productivity and what factors would explain the observed disparities. To respond to these two questions, the dynamic of the agri...

The EU agriculture, in spite of the market integration process, shows important differences in terms of productivity and efficiency. It is thus important to determine whether there is a convergence process in agricultural productivity and what factors would explain the observed disparities. To respond to these two questions, the dynamic of the agri...

Este trabajo analiza si ha habido un proceso convergente en la productividad del trabajo en el sector agrario de la Unión Europea (UE), para un conjunto de 125 regiones en el periodo 1986-2004. Para su estudio se propone un modelo dinámico de datos de panel. Los resultados confirman que las agriculturas se mueven muy cerca de sus estados estacion...

This paper analyses whether there is a convergence process in terms of labour productivity in the European Union (EU) agricultural sector, for a set of 125 regions in the period 1986-2004. For this purpose, we propose a dynamic panel data model. Results confirm that agricultures move very close to their stationary states which differ among themselv...

Dynamique de la productivité agricole européenne : une analyse de convergence régionale L’objectif de cet article est d’analyser l’évolution de la distribution de la productivité agricole européenne sous l’hypothèse de la persistance des différences entre les niveaux de productivité sur le long terme. Nos données proviennent de la base de données d...

Las cooperativas han acometido fuertes procesos de inversión tecnológica en los últimos años. Sin embargo, ello no ha permitido al cooperativismo agroalimentario apropiarse de mayor valor añadido debido al poder de las empresas distribuidoras y los escasos resultados obtenidos en la fase de comercialización. Por estos motivos, el objetivo de este t...

At present, European agriculture must face new situations derived from future enlargement, the globalization of the economy or the requirements of consumers. These changes are not only going to affect the agricultural markets but will have special relevancy in the economies of the rural zones of the European Union, because the evolution of the agri...

The aim of this study is to analyse the evolution of the European regional agricultural productivity in terms of convergence. The initial hypothesis is that, in spite of the integration process, the agricultural productivity does not converge to the same stationary level. Additionally, we try to identify the decisive factors affecting such producti...

In this paper, we intend to analyze the regional convergence of the agricultural sector in Europe. More specifically, we want to show the relevance of the agricultural sector in explaining territorial inequalities within the European Union. For that purpose, we will analyze the evolution of inequality and convergence in European agriculture by usin...