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Is technological change really skills-biased? : firm-level evidence of the complementarities between ICT and workers' education

Bolli, Thomas; Pusterla, Filippo - 2019

This paper extends and refines the concept of ICT-driven skills-biased technological change by disentangling the effects of information technologies (IT) and communication technologies (CT). Guided by the theory that IT and CT differently affect firms' production processes, we investigate the...

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Complementarities among types of education in affecting firms' productivity

Bolli, Thomas; Pusterla, Filippo - 2018

This paper uses Swiss firm-level panel data to estimate how complementarities among workers with different types of education affect firms' productivity. We subdivide workers by education into four groups: no post-secondary education, upper secondary vocational education and training (VET),...

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The complementary effect of organizational practices and workers' level of education

Pusterla, Filippo - 2020

This paper investigates how rms' productivity is a ected by the relationship between organiza- tional practices and workers' level of education. Using rm-level panel data covering the period 2002 to 2008, I estimate complementarities among workers' level of education and a large set of...

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Vertical educational diversity and innovation performance

Bolli, Thomas; Renold, Ursula; Wörter, Martin - 2015

innovation performance, addressing endogeneity by exploiting within firm variation as well as variation in labor supply across … regions. We find that vertical educational diversity increases the extensive margin of R&D and product innovation …, particularly new product innovation. However, the relationship with process innovation, R&D intensity, and product innovation …

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Global technology cycles and local economic performance

Heinrich, Sebastian; Sarferaz, Samad; Wörter, Martin - 2023

This paper studies the global synchronicity of technology and its impact on the economy. We employ dynamic factor analysis to decompose patent data in different digital technologies for various countries into global and country-specific factors. Our findings confirm the existence of global and...

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