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One or many knowledge production functions? : Mapping innovative activity using microdata

Conte, Andrea (contributor); Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2005

subsample of 2,949 firms from the third European Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3). A bivariate probit analysis framework is … innovation intensity. This paper also discusses an alternative test procedure that permits an extension of Cragg's test in the … analysis of survey data with weighted observations. Results show that R&D is strictly linked to product innovation, while TA is …

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Workplace training in Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Booth, Alison L.; Brunello, Giorgio; … - 2005

This paper reviews the existing evidence on workplace training in Europe in different data sources--the CVTS, OECD data and the European Community Household Panel. We outline the differences in training incidence and relate these differences to the private costs and benefits of training, and to...

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The stairways to heaven : a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess

Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2008

We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find...

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Is Training More Frequent When the Wage Premium is Smaller? : Evidence from the European Community

Bassanini, Andrea - 2006

According to Becker [1964], when labour markets are perfectly competitive, general training is paid by the worker, who reaps all the benefits from the investment. Therefore, ceteris paribus, the greater the training wage premium, the greater the investment in general training. Using data from...

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Labour-saving automation and occupational exposure: a text-similarity measure

Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2021

This paper represents one of the first attempts at building a direct measure of occupational exposure to robotic labour-saving technologies. After identifying robotic and LS robotic patents retrieved by Montobbio et al. (2022), the underlying 4-digit CPC definitions are employed in order to...

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Financing constraints and employers' investment in training

Brunello, Giorgio; Gereben, Áron; Weiss, Christoph; … - 2020

Using a representative sample of European firms, we study whether and to what extent financing constraints affect employers' decision to invest in employee training. We combine survey data on investment activities with administrative data on financial statements to develop an index of financing...

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Robots and the origin of their labour-saving impact

Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2020

This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within robotic patents. It analyses innovative actors engaged in robotic technology and their economic environment (identity, location, industry), and identifies the technological fields particularly exposed to...

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Employer provided training in Europe : determinants and obstacles

Brunello, Giorgio; Wruuck, Patricia - 2020

This report looks at employer-provided training in Europe. We start with a brief outline of the economic theory of training. We then look at the recent facts, by combining data from two employer surveys, the European Investment Bank's Investment Survey (EIBIS) and Eurostat's Continuous...

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Unemployment, education and earnings growth

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth from the experience of unemployment. This result...

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The side effect of pension reforms on training : evidence from Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - 2013

Due to pension reforms, minimum retirement age increased substantially in Italy between the second part of the 1990s and the early 2000s. We compare the training participation of pre- and post-reform cohorts of private sector employees and estimate that adding one year to minimum retirement age...

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