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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580909
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612764
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The influence of value-chain governance on innovation performance: a study of Italian suppliers
Brancati, Emanuele; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Mazzi, Caio Torres - 2021
This paper explores how value-chain governance affects the innovation performance of suppliers of intermediate products … is more conducive to innovation for suppliers, especially when these firms have medium capability levels. Conversely … intermediates and innovation performance, which indicates that technology-gap is an important mediator of learning within value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517678
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Outsourcing and technological change
Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2009
We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm’s expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932479
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Discrete innovation, continuous improvement, and competitive pressure
Ghosh, Arghya (contributor); Kato, Takao (contributor);  … - 2007
Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms’ incentives to innovate and competitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003571666
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Outsourcing and technological innovations : a firm-level analysis
Bartel, Ann (contributor); Lach, Saul (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper presents a dynamic model that analyzes how firms' expectations with regards to technological change influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing rapidly. As the pace of innovations in production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656912
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Firm-level upgrading in developing countries
Verhoogen, Eric - 2021
various dimensions of upgrading - learning, quality upgrading, technology adoption, and product innovation. The second part …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698696
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A note on the determinants and consequences of outsourcing using German data
Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Pahnke, André; … - 2008
Using German data from the Institute for Employment Research Establishment Panel, this paper constructs two main measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003739950
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Downward nominal wage rigidity in services : direct evidence from a firm survey
Radowski, Daniel (contributor); Bonin, Holger (contributor) - 2009
The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are significantly more frequent and wage cuts less frequent in services. Reasons preventing wage cuts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793963
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Offshoring, wages and job security of temporary workers
Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - 2012
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629697