chapter explores how Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, in terms of the strengths and vulnerabilities of their labour market …

use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide causal evidence that workers who used …

This paper deals with the complex relationship between innovation and the labor market, analyzing the impact of new …

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

supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 …-skilled workers. Labor market tightness and external demand are plausible mechanisms for the labor-innovation nexus. …

- using different taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - the concrete ways through which an emerging country … where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technology transfer. In the second part …

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 …