This paper uses longitudinal data for a sample of Italian firms to study the effects of technological and organisational changes on wage levels and on wage differentials by skills inside the firm. Fixed effect estimates reveal that technological changes are associated with higher absolute and...

Italian Abstract: L’indicatore DESI della Commissione Europea segnala che il ricorso alle tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione da parte delle Amministrazioni pubbliche in Italia è inferiore rispetto alla gran parte degli altri paesi dell’Unione. Il lavoro analizza...

This paper aims at analyzing trends in TFP and labour productivity growth. Data Envelopment Analysis is used to estimate a technological frontier and to compare all nations to it. The estimation of Malmquist productivity index as TFP indicators allows to decompose labour productivity growth in...

This research presents the scale of innovative intensity (SIIN) based on a meta-taxonomy that subsume other, less comprehensive taxonomy. The scale is used for a theoretical framework of measurement –technometrics- based on the economic impact of the technological change on the economic...

The purpose of this paper, after accurate description of the taxonomies of the innovation available in economic literature, is to evaluate technological change on the basis of the effects provoked by the innovative waves on consumers, firms and markets. Similarly to the Mercalli-Cancani- Sieberg...

This paper aims to examine the evolution of Industrial Research in Italy in the last decades. The analysis provides a survey of the most important contributions in the literature; a careful definition of the concepts "basic, applied and pre-competitive research"; the theoretical foundation of R&D...