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The diffusion of digital skills across EU regions : structural drivers and polarization dynamics
Caravella, Serenella; Cirillo, Valeria; Crespi, Francesco; … - 2022
The digital transformation is an important driver of long-run productivity growth and, as such, it has the potential to promote a more inclusive and sustainable growth. However, digital capabilities, crucial to develop and govern new digital technologies, are unevenly distributed across European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414207
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Globalization, structural change and innovation in emerging economies : the impact on employment and skills
Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129950
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Globalization, technological change and skills : evidence from Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017
There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change over employment in least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization and consequent international technological transfer. Using a panel of 1,940 Ethiopian firms over the period 1996-2004 and deploying GMMSYS estimates,...
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Trade, education, governance and distance : impact on technology diffusion and productivity growth in Asia and LAC
Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017
This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology …, and falls with distance to the North; ii) an increase of LAC's ETG to East Asia's levels raises TFP by 165%, fully … gaps; and iv) South America’s loss of TFP relative to Mexico associated with its greater distance to US-Canada (both Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114029
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Education, governance, and trade- and distance-related technology diffusion : accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP gap, and the TFP impact of South America's greater dist...
Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976-2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model’s explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …
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Technical change, task allocation, and labor unions
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas; Brall, Franziska - 2022
We propose a novel framework that integrates the "task approach" for a more precise production modeling into the search-and-matching model with low- and high-skilled workers, and wage setting by labor unions. We establish the relationship between task reallocation and changes in wage pressure,...
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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021
An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...
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Business visits, technology transfer and productivity growth
Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2020
This paper builds on and considerably extends Piva, Tani and Vivarelli (2018), confirming the key role of Business Visits as a productivity enhancing channel of technology transfer. Our analysis is based on a unique database on business visits sourced from the U.S. National Business Travel...
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Technological change and occupation mobility : a task-based approach to horizontal mismatch
Aepli, Manuel - 2019
Technological change and its impacts on labour markets are a much-discussed topic in economics. Economists generally assume that new technology penetrating the labour market shifts firms' task demand. Given individuals' acquired and supplied skills, these task demand shifts potentially foster...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152214
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Automation and related technologies : a mapping of the new knowledge base
Santarelli, Enrico; Staccioli, Jacopo; Vivarelli, Marco - 2022
Using the entire population of USPTO patent applications published between 2002 and 2019, and leveraging on both patent classification and semantic analysis, this paper aims to map the current knowledge base centred on robotics and AI technologies. These technologies are investigated both as a...
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