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Innovation, employment and skills in advanced and developing countries: A survey of the literature

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...

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Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms: Empirical Evidence from Europe

Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2015

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

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R&D, Embodied Technological Change and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Barbieri, Laura; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …

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Are Robots Stealing Our Jobs?

Pellegrino, Gabriele; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

statistically significant evidence of the expected labor-friendly nature of innovation. More in detail, neither R&D nor investment …

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Is R&D Good for Employment? Microeconometric Evidence from the EU

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

Using a unique firm-level database comprising the top European R&D investors over the period 2002-2013 and running LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labour-friendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment effect appears limited in magnitude and entirely due to...

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Embodied and Disembodied Technological Change: The Sectoral Patterns of Job-Creation and Job-Destruction

Dosi, Giovanni; Piva, Mariacristina; Virgillito, Maria … - 2019

This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...

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Innovation and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2003

The microeconomic empirical literature devoted to the link between innovation and employment tends to suggest that … in size - positive relationship between innovation and employment. While the links with sales and wages have the expected … signs and turn out to be significant, the job creating impact of innovation proves robust after checking for time, industry …

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The job creation effect of R&D expenditures

Bogliacino, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - 2010

In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel estimations of a demand-for-labour equation augmented with technology. We find that R&D...

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R&D and employment: Some evidence from European microdata

Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2011

innovation policy makers having employment as one of their specific aims. …

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Testing the Employment Impact of Automation, Robots and AI: A Survey and Some Methodological Issues

Barbieri, Laura; Mussida, Chiara; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2019

The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, is going to transform societies and economic systems. However, this is not the first technological revolution humankind has been facing,...

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