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Energy, development, and the environment : an appraisal three decades after the "limits to growth" debate
Dosi, Giovanni (contributor); Grazzi, Marco (contributor) - 2006
This work builds upon some long-term secular regularities concerning the relation between consumption of energy, technological progress and economic growth and reassesses the old question raised around forty years ago in the limits to growthʺ discussion (Meadows et al. [1972]), namely are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003321474
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Production theory : accounting for firm heterogeneity and technical change
Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Marengo, Luigi; … - 2013
The paper presents a new framework to assess firm level heterogeneity and to study the rate and direction of technical change. Building on the analysis of revealed short-run production functions by Hildenbrand (1981), we propose the (normalized) volume of the zonotope composed by vectors-firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010202776
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Human-mobility networks, country income, and labor productivity
Fagiolo, Giorgio; Santoni, Gianluca - 2014
mobility can explain differences in their per-capita income and labor productivity. We disentangle the role played by global … human-mobility network enhances both per-capita income and labor productivity. Our results hold cross-sectionally, as well … network. Our exercises also suggest that most of the gain in income and productivity can be attained if country centrality in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403724
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ICT, skills, and organisational change : evidence from a panel of Italian manufacturing firms
Giuri, Paola (contributor); Torrisi, Salvatore (contributor) - 2006
. Our findings suggest that the productivity gains from investments in the three innovative activities are related to firm … size. -- Organizational change ; ICT investment ; skills ; human capital ; productivity ; complementarity ; SMEs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003092322
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Labor market dynamics and institutions : an evolutionary approach
Gabriele, Roberto (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
growth and average productivity growth. Model simulations allow us study the role of dynamic interactions among agents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001690372
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Technical progress and structural change : a long-term view
Nuvolari, Alessandro; Russo, Emanuele - 2019
productivity gains and demand growth. In this paper we study the interactions between structural change and technological progress … linking structural transformations and sector-specific technological opportunities to aggregate productivity growth. In the … final part we present productivity decompositions using a sectoral innovation taxonomy to study the contribution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020146
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Beyond R&D : the role of embodied technological change in affecting employment
Pellegrino, Gabriele; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 2002-2013. Our GMM-SYS estimates generate various results, which are partially in contrast with the extant literature. Indeed,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863065
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Structural change and innovation in developing economies : a way out of the middle income trap?
Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status. In particular, the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509097
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Innovation, technical change and patents in the development process : a long term view
Cimoli, Mario; Dosi, Giovanni; Mazzoleni, Roberto; … - 2011
An essential aspect of "catching up" by developing countries is the emulation of technological leaders and the rapid accumulation by individuals and organizations of the knowledge and capabilities needed in order to sustain processes of technical learning. The rates and patterns of development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008909529
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Capabilities accumulation and development : what history tells the theory
Dosi, Giovanni; Yu, Xiaodan - 2018
In this contribution we offer a broad overview of the technological, institutional and policy dynamics associated with the great transformation - borrowing Karl Polanyi (1944) expression - leading from traditional, mostly rural, economies to economies driven by industrial activities (and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894329