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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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Patent regimes and the commodification of knowledge

Coriat, Benjamin; Weinstein, Olivier - 2011 - This version: July 2011

complementarities ; knowledge based economy ; labor law ; property rights …

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Discovering pre-entry knowledge complexity with patent topic modeling and the post-entry growth of Italian firms

Guerzoni, Marco; Nuccio, Massimiliano; Tamagni, Federico - 2022

Innovation studies have largely recognized the role of knowledge in fostering innovation and growth of entrants …. Previous literature has focused on entrepreneurial and managerial capabilities and education and knowledge incorporated in … material and immaterial resources. We assume that new firms need to possess different pieces of knowledge, but beyond diversity …

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Visualizing the evolving fit of education and economy : the case of ICT education in Norway

Capasso, Marco; Spjelkavik Mark, Michael - 2019

Our study suggests a pattern of methodological steps aimed at an efficient visualization of the fit between an education and an economy. The steps help to detect cross-sectoral skills, originating in a given education path, and to connect them to the evolution of the labour market. Our procedure...

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Skill gap, mismatch, and the dynamics of Italian companies' productivity

Fanti, Lucrezia; Guarascio, Dario; Tubiana, Matteo - 2019

acknowledging the need to update their knowledge base display a higher productivity vis-à-vis other firms. Second, when it comes to … the skill need distinguished by competence/knowledge domains (management, STEM, social and soft skills, technical …

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Rethinking age-heaping : a cautionary tale from nineteenth century Italy

A'Hearn, Brian; Delfino, Alexia; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2016

A swelling stream of literature employs age-heaping as an indicator of human capital, more specifically of numeracy. We re-examine this connection in light of evidence drawn from nineteenth century Italy: census data, death records, and direct, qualitative evidence on age-awareness and numeracy....

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Robots and the origin of their labour-saving impact

Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2020

This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within robotic patents. It analyses innovative actors engaged in robotic technology and their economic environment (identity, location, industry), and identifies the technological fields particularly exposed to...

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Dimensions of illiteracy : a quantitative and comparative approach from Italy, circa 1815

Martinez, Marco - 2022

This paper quantitatively assesses to what extent signatures in marriage certificates can inform about literacy rates in pre-industrial states. The direct estimates are based on a novel and balanced random sample of marriage certificates for pre-unification Italy in 1815. Such figures are...

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Climate change and labour-saving technologies : the twin transition via patent texts

Rughi, Tommaso; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2023

This paper provides a direct understanding of the twin transition from the innovative activity domain. It starts with a technological mapping of the technological innovations characterised by both climate change mitigation/adaptation (green) and labour-saving attributes. To accomplish the task,...

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On the uneven evolution of human know-how

Nelson, Richard R. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

It is widely recognized that advances in knowhow have been the key driving force between the great improvements in human material well-being that have been achieved over the past two centuries. However, not much attention has been directed to the fact that the advances in knowhow that have been...

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