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Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...
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Digitalisation, automation and future technological changes are changing the world of work, affecting the skills needed to perform them. The future of jobs will not look like the present situation: increasingly, workers will have to adapt to fast technological change, accept more mobility during...
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/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …
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a new growth model centred around a shift towards more home-grown innovation, digitalisation, climate change mitigation …
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This research investigates deals with the impact of various innovation activities on innovation output by using Spanish … CIS3 data on 3,247 innovative firms and applying several Knowledge Production Functions. It is confirmed that different … innovation activities lead to differences in both the propensity to innovate and innovation output, depending on the …
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This paper examines whether ICT substitute labour and reduce the demand for labour. We used firm-level comparable data separately for firms in manufacturing, services and ICT-producing sectors from seven European countries. We adopted a common methodology and applied it to a unique dataset...
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In this report we produce measures of skill mismatch in the domain of problem solving in technology-rich-environments using PIAAC data for the 13 countries of the European Union participating in the programme (plus the US), extending the methodology developed in Pellizzari and Fichen (2013). We...
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