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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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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 …
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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 countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226717
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People and machines : a look at the evolving relationship between capital and skill in manufacturing 1860 - 1930 using immigration shocks
Lafortune, Jeanne; Tessada, José A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2015
This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and unskilled workers, and then dramatically increased its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307890
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Skill-biased technological change and skill-enhancing trade in Turkey : evidence from longitudinal microdata
Srour, Ilina; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
This paper explores the causes of skill-based employment differentials within the Turkish manufacturing sector over the period 1980-2001. Turkey is taken as an example of a developing economy that, in that period, had been technologically advancing and becoming increasingly integrated with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729419
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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
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