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Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment

Bhuller, Manudeep; Dahl, Gordon B.; Loken, Katrine Vellesen - 2018

Understanding whether, and in what situations, time spent in prison is criminogenic or preventive has proven challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes these challenges in the context of Norway's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how...

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Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? : The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules

Del Bono, Emilia; Galindo-Rueda, Fernando - 2004

This paper contributes to the understanding of how compulsory schooling regulations affect educational attainment and subsequent labour market outcomes. It uses valuable information from a natural experiment driven by rules that allow for variation in legal dropout dates. Since the school...

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Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration

Bhuller, Manudeep; Dahl, Gordon B.; Loken, Katrine Vellesen - 2018

An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected depends both on what incarceration does to their parent and what they learn from their parent's experience. To overcome endogeneity concerns, we exploit the random assignment of...

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Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules

Del Bono, Emilia; Galindo-Rueda, Fernando - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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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 …

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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 …

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Is R&D Good for Employment? Microeconometric Evidence from the EU

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

Using a unique firm-level database comprising the top European R&D investors over the period 2002-2013 and running LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labour-friendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment effect appears limited in magnitude and entirely due to...

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Embodied and Disembodied Technological Change: The Sectoral Patterns of Job-Creation and Job-Destruction

Dosi, Giovanni; Piva, Mariacristina; Virgillito, Maria … - 2019

This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...

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Innovation and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2003

The microeconomic empirical literature devoted to the link between innovation and employment tends to suggest that … in size - positive relationship between innovation and employment. While the links with sales and wages have the expected … signs and turn out to be significant, the job creating impact of innovation proves robust after checking for time, industry …

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R&D and employment: Some evidence from European microdata

Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2011

innovation policy makers having employment as one of their specific aims. …

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