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Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Ottaviano, … - 2003

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

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Rethinking individual technological innovation : cooperation network stability and the contingent effect of knowledge network attributes

Runhui, Lin; Lu, Yanhong; Zhou, Cheng; Li, Biting - In: Journal of business research : JBR 144 (2022), pp. 366-376

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Horizontal and vertical polarization : task-specific technological change in a multi-sector economy

Lee, Sang Yoon; Shin, Yongseok - 2019

We construct a multi-layer model of skills, occupations, and sectors. Technological progress among middle-skill occupations raises the employment shares and relative wages of lower- and higher-skill occupations (horizontal polarization), and those of managers over workers (vertical...

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Green skills

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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Changing task contents of jobs in India : implications and way forward

Vashisht, Pankaj; Dubey, Jay Dev - 2018

In this paper, we analyse the evolution of the task content of jobs in India between 1983 and 2011. Following standard literature, we calculated five task intensities by combining NSS data with O-Net data at the 3-digit level of occupational classification. We find that, in line with global...

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Back to the future : changing job profiles in the digital age

Lorenz, Hanno; Stephany, Fabian - 2018

In light of increasingly "smarter" technologies, the future of (human) labour is questioned on a daily basis. A study by Frey and Osborne (2013), one of the most recognised contributions in this domain, estimated that half of the US labour force is highly susceptible to computerisation in the...

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The measurement of labour content : a general approach

Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013

This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content in the context of general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical...

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Artificial intelligence, tasks, skills and wages : worker-level evidence from Germany

Engberg, Erik; Koch, Michael; Lodefalk, Magnus; … - 2023

This paper documents novel facts on within-occupation task and skill changes over the past two decades in Germany. In a second step, it reveals a distinct relationship between occupational work content and exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation (robots). Workers in occupations...

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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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