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Vona, Francesco; Marin, Giovanni; Consoli, Davide; … - 2015

While policymakers talk of "green skills", there is little systematic empirical research on the demand for skills that will be needed to operate and develop green technology. We propose a data-driven methodology to identify green skills and to gauge the ways in which the demand for these...

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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men

Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015

This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new longitudinal dataset that contains detailed information on individual working histories. Our favourite panel estimates indicate that an additional year of parental education...

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Intellectual property rights, migration, and diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2011

intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … through which the knowledge acquired by emigrants abroad can flow back to the South and enhance the skills of the remaining … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it …

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Skills and human capital for the low-carbon transition in developing and emerging economies

Vona, Francesco - 2023

Developing and emerging economies face enormous challenges to reconcile economic development and job creation with decarbonization. An essential aspect of such "early-stage" decoupling of growth and carbon emissions is to develop a skill base that favours the diffusion of green productions and...

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Who's fit for the low-carbon transition? : emerging skills and wage gaps in job and data

Saussay, Aurélien; Sato, Misato; Vona, Francesco; … - 2022

As governments worldwide increase their commitments to tackling climate change, the number of low-carbon jobs are expected to grow rapidly. Here we provide evidence on the characteristics of low-carbon jobs in the US using comprehensive online job postings data between 2010-2019. By accurately...

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Routinization within-occupation task changes and long-run employment dynamics

Consoli, Davide; Marin, Giovanni; Rentocchini, Francesco; … - 2022

The present study adds to the 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 United States:...

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Finance and the reallocation of scientific, engineering and mathematical talent

Marin, Giovanni; Vona, Francesco - 2022

The US financial sector has become a magnet for the brightest graduates in the science, technology, engineering and mathematical fields (STEM). We provide quantitative bases for this anecdotal fact for the US, over the period 1980-2019 and with a specific focus on the last decade where...

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Strategic intellectual property rights policy and North-South technology transfer

Naghavi, Alireza (contributor) - 2005

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Europe's losses of innovation : the individual as well as societal harms

Phelps, Edmund S. - 2016

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Threshold policy effects and directed technical change in energy innovation

Nesta, Lionel; Verdolini, Elena; Vona, Francesco - 2018

This paper analyzes the effect of environmental policies on the direction of energy innovation across countries over … second regime, market-based policies are moderately effective in promoting renewable innovation, while command …-and-control policies depress fossil based innovation. Finally, market-based policies are more effective to consolidate a green comparative …

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