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The paper investigates the shift in demand towards more skilled labour in Swedish manufacturing during the last two decades. Two competing hypotheses to explain this shift are examined: skilled-biased technical change and increased international competition.
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Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment in many advanced economies. While process innovation can be job-destroying, product innovation can imply the emergence of new firms, new sectors, and thus new jobs. But even for...
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employment at a high risk of automation, we use detailed employment data and automatability estimates (or substitutional … Matthes (2018), and Mihaylov and Tijdens (2019). In 2019, depending on the approach taken, the share of employment in Slovakia … Nové Mesto, Bytča, Myjava, Skalica and Krupina, while districts with the lowest share of employment at risk are Svidník …
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We study changes in employment by occupations characterized by different degree of exposure to routinization in the six …
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exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We … find that the negligible long term impact of automation on employment conceals significant short term positive and negative … effects within phases of the technology life cycle. We also find that the negative impact of ICT investment on employment is …
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This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries … model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only … employment; the "make and buy" strategy comes in second. Similar results are found for small firms. These results highlight the …
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This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth and composition in Argentina …. (1998), employment growth is related to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and … with employment growth at the firm level. No evidence of displacement effects due to the introduction of product …
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This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth and composition in Argentina …. (1998), employment growth is related to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and … with employment growth at the firm level. No evidence of displacement effects due to the introduction of product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712038
This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries … model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only … employment; the "make and buy" strategy comes in second. Similar results are found for small firms. These results highlight the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712274
This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in three Latin American countries … by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: “make only” (R&D), “buy only” (external R … strategy). Firms that conduct in-house innovation activities (“make only”) have the greatest impact on employment; the “make …
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