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The dynamics of skills: Technology and business cycles
Cirillo, Valeria; Pianta, Mario; Nascia, Leopoldo - 2015
except managers experience job losses that are mainly driven by the introduction of process innovation. In services, a … hold. During the downswing most established links break down; in particular, product innovation loses its positive impact …
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Industrial relations and firm-level innovation: A comparative analysis of establishment data in Germany and Italy
Anzoli, Guendalina; Benassi, Chiara; Cetrulo, Armanda - 2024
A large body of research has investigated the impact of industrial relations on workplace innovation. Econometric … research based on U.S. data suggests that unions are detrimental to innovation, while evidence from Europe is more mixed. This … points to the importance of 'contextualized' theorizing about the effects of industrial relations on firm-level innovation …
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Digital technologies, employment and skills
Reljic, Jelena; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Pianta, Mario - 2019
The diffusion of digital technologies and their impact on employment and skills is investigated inthis article considering six major European countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) and 42 manufacturing and service industriesover the 2009-2014 period. We...
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The effect of government cuts of doctoral scholarships on science
Rossello, Giulia - 2023
I provide estimates of the impact of government cuts on PhD scholarships in Science. I leverage a unique quasi-natural experiment, the staggered cuts made by the Hungarian Government between 2010 and 2021 to expand Orban's political influence over the university system. The political aim of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014541725
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Toward a neo-Schumpeterian theory of the firm
Winter, Sidney G. - 2004
knowledge involves an overly sharp distinction between technically possible and technically impossible a distinction which has … no counterpart in the realities of organizational knowledge. The main elements of a Schumpeterian view are described and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331098
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Skill upgrading, wage gap and international trade: Firm-level evidence for Italian manufacturing firms
Iodice, Irene; Tomasi, Chiara - 2015
This paper aims at investigating the evolution of the employment and wage structure of Italian manufacturing firms in the early 2000s. The work analyzes whether skills and wage movements have been taken place between or within sectors, and within sector, between or within firms. We show that...
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Skills, division of labor and performance in collective inventions: Evidence from the open source software
Giuri, Paola; Ploner, Matteo; Rullani, Francesco; … - 2006
This paper investigates the role of skills and the division of labor among participants in collective inventions. Our analysis draws on a large sample of projects registered at Sourceforge.net, the world's largest incubator of open source software activity. We test the hypothesis that the level...
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The institutional adjustment margin to import competition: Evidence from Italian minimum wages
Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo; Vona, Francesco - 2019
A growing body of research has contributed to understanding the labor market and political effects of globalization. This paper explores an overlooked aspect of trade-induced adjustments in the labor market: the institutional aspect. We take advantage of the two-tier collective bargaining...
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Routinization, within-occupation task changes and long-run employment dynamics
Consoli, Davide; Marin, Giovanni; Rentocchini, Francesco; … - 2019
The present study contributes to the existing literature on routinization and employment by capturing within-occupation task changes over the period 1980-2010. The main contributions are the measurement of such changes and the combination of two data sources on occupational task content for the...
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Digitalization, routineness and employment: An exploration on Italian task-based data
Cirillo, Valeria; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Guarascio, Dario; … - 2019
This paper explores the relation between the digitalization and of labour processes, the level of routineness of tasks and changes in employment. The levels of digitalization and routineness of occupations in 796 5-digit ISCO professional groups are measured using data from a unique Italian...
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