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Skill Biased Technological and Organizational Change : Estimating a Mixed Simultaneous Equation Model Using the Iab Establishment Panel

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Recent years have brought growing evidence for an increasing labour demand for high skilled and a deterioration of the labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international trade and a skill biased technological change....

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Trade unions' responses to Industry 4.0 amid corporatism and resistance

Cirillo, Valeria; Rinaldini, Matteo; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - 2020

old forms of dualism and revitalising workers' role in the crucial issue of work organisation. …

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Human capital is the key to the IT productivity paradox

Gunnarsson, Gudmundur; Mellander, Erik; Savvidou, Eleni - 2004

Unlike previous analysis, we consider (i) possible externalities in the use of IT and (ii) IT and human capital interactions. Examining, hypothetically, the statistical consequences of erroneously disregarding (i) and (ii) we shed light on the small or negative growth effects found in early...

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Workers' awareness context in Italian 4.0 factories

Cirillo, Valeria; Rinaldini, Matteo; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - 2018

The study of the co-evolution of processes of technological innovation and the resulting organisational changes has been a topic of interest since the first appearance of the idea of division of labour and specialisation in Adam Smith's works. The major phases of organisational change are in...

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Workplace organisation and innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises

Lorenz, Edward H.; Potter, Jonathan - 2019

This paper examines the relationship between workplace organisation and innovation in small and medium … Assessment of Adult Competencies and the Community Innovation Survey. It contrasts SMEs adopting a “learning organisation” or … “discretionary learning” form of workplace organisation with SMEs adopting more hierarchical organisational forms. Learning …

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Technology adoption in input-output networks

Han, Xintong; Xu, Lei - 2019

This paper studies how network structure can affect the speed of adoption. In particular, we model the decision to adopt Python 3 by software packages. Python 3 provides advanced features but is not backward compatible with Python 2, which implies adoption costs. Moreover, packages form...

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Workers' awareness context in Italian 4.0 factories

Cirillo, Valeria; Rinaldini, Matteo; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - 2018

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Digitalizing firms: skills, work organization and the adoption of new enabling technologies

Cirillo, Valeria; Fanti, Lucrezia; Mina, Andrea; Ricci, … - 2021

between technology, skills and the organisation of work. We then provide novel econometric evidence on the positive effects of …

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Control in the era of surveillance capitalism : an empirical investigation of Italian Industry 4.0 factories

Moro, Angelo; Rinaldini, Matteo; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - 2019

We explore the extent to which the current technological trend, dubbed Industry 4.0, might increase forms of control inside organisations, by focussing on pivotal firms in the so-called Italian Motor Valley currently embracing its adoption. We find that Industry 4.0 technologies open up great...

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Trade unions' responses to Industry 4.0 amid corporatism and resistance

Cirillo, Valeria; Rinaldini, Matteo; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - In: PSL quarterly review 76 (2023) 305, pp. 91-120

old forms of dualism and revitalising workers' role in the crucial issue of work organisation. …

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