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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

connected economy. Disembodied technological change turns out to positively affect employment dynamics in the "upstream" sectors …

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May AI revolution be labour-friendly? : some micro evidence from the supply side

Damioli, Giacomo; Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; … - 2021

positive and significant impact of AI patent families on employment, supporting the labour-friendly nature of product …

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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 … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …

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Technological change and employment : were Ricardo and Marx right?

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, the economic insights about the employment impact of technological … employment effect appears to be entirely due to the medium-and high-tech sectors, while no effect can be detected in the low …-tech industries; 2) capital formation is found to be negatively related to employment; this outcome points to a possible labour …

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The empirics of technology, employment and occupations : lessons learned and challenges ahead

Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2022

What have we learned, from the most recent years of debate and analysis, of the future of work being threatened by technology? This paper presents a critical review of the empirical literature and outlines both lessons learned and challenges ahead. Far from being fully exhaustive, the review...

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The transatlantic productivity gap : is R&D the main culprit?

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2011

The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US can be explained not only by a lower level of corporate...

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The productivity impact of R&D investment : a comparison between the EU and the US

Castellani, Davide; Piva, Mariacristina; Schubert, Torben; … - 2016

Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially in the high-tech industries), and this...

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Productivity gains from R&D investment : are high-tech sectors still ahead?

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2011

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D expenditures considered as an investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large unique longitudinal database consisting of 1,809 US and...

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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 almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which...

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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed … Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …

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