employment effects of routine-replacing technological change (RRTC), along with the underlying mechanisms. We show that while … new jobs through increased product demand, outweighing displacement effects and resulting in net employment growth …

digital technologies (IDT), on firms’ employment structure using Italian firm-level data. It employs a unique empirical … approach, constructing instrumental variables based on predetermined employment composition and global technological progress …, proxied by patents. Findings indicate that IDT investment positively affects employment, favoring a skilled, IT …

can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real … rate regimes obey common employment adjustment thresholds. …

demand for standard measures of human capital and specific skill requirements. We evaluate a 2018 Italian labor law reform … by upskilling towards workers with higher levels of human capital and specific skill requirements. When offering jobs … might have unintended consequences by raising the hiring standards for job entry, thereby reducing employment opportunities …

productivity; (ii) reallocates employment away from temporary administrative workers and non-remunerated workers and expands … employment of permanent production workers; (iii) leads to the formalization of labor relationships, to the implementation of new …