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The empirics of technology, employment and occupations : lessons learned and challenges ahead
Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2022
What have we learned, from the most recent years of debate and analysis, of the future of work being threatened by … technology? This paper presents a critical review of the empirical literature and outlines both lessons learned and challenges … outcomes across studies - still stand, including (i) the variable used as a proxy for technology, (ii) the level of aggregation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013465150
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Exploring the causes behind the persistence of French technological specializations
Dosso, Mafini - 2012
Responding to the research on the persistence of technological specializations, this paper puts forward a complementary explanation for the stability in the fields in which a country performs well relatively to other countries. The study investigates the French institutional and historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550523
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Path dependence in technologies and organizations : a concise guide
Castaldi, Carolina; Dosi, Giovanni; Paraskevopoulou, Evita - 2011
The note on which an entry for the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management will draw offers a beginner's guide to path dependency in technologies and organizations. We address the very meaning of the concept and its centrality in various aspects of economic analysis. We outline the various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125514
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Threats and opportunities in the digital era : automation spikes and employment dynamics
Domini, Giacomo; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele; … - 2019
This paper investigates how investment in automation-intensive goods impacts on worker flows at the firm level and, within firms, across occupational categories. Resorting to an integrated dataset encompassing detailed information on firms, their imports, and employer-employee data for French...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030428
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019262
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Difusing new technology without dissipating rents : some historical case studies of knowledge sharing
Bessen, James; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2017 - This version: November, 2017
inventors' incentives. Each new technology coexisted with an alternative for one or more decades. This allowed inventors to earn … rents while sharing knowledge, attaining major productivity gains. The technology diffusion literature suggests that such … circumstances are common during the early stages of a new technology. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752432
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Innovation and the labor market : theory, evidence and challenges
Corrocher, Nicoletta; Moschella, Daniele; Staccioli, Jacopo - 2023
This paper deals with the complex relationship between innovation and the labor market, analyzing the impact of new technological advancements on overall employment, skills and wages. After a critical review of the extant literature and the available empirical studies, novel evidence is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014289232
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Growth, structural change and technological capabilities : Latin America in a comparative perspective
Cimoli, Mario; Holland, Márcio; Porcile, Gabriel; … - 2006
Countries differ in terms of technological capabilities and complexity of production structures. According to that, countries may follow different development strategies: one based on extracting rents from abundant endowments, such as labor or natural resources, and the other focused on creating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003321423
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The dynamics of proits and wages : technology, of-shoring and demand
Bogliacino, Francesco; Guarascio, Dario; Cirillo, Valeria - 2016
This article explores the impact of innovation, offshoring and demand on profits and wage dynamics. The growing relevance of functional distribution in terms of explaining personal distribution underscores the importance of our results for understanding recent increases in inequality. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420638
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Causal relations between knowledge-intensive business services and regional employment growth
Brenner, Thomas; Capasso, Marco; Duschl, Matthias; … - 2015
(KIBS) and overall regional employment growth using German labour-market data for the period 1999-2012. Adopting a recently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346689