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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014

An increasingly influential technological-discontinuity paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited...

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The shift to services : a review of the literature

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2003

The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first looks at the ?classics?, however (Fisher (1935), Clark...

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What is the value of entrepreneurship? A review of recent research

van Praag, C. Mirjam; Versloot, Peter H. - 2007

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

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Innovation, employment and skills in advanced and developing countries: A survey of the literature

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...

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Toothless Reforms? The Remarkable Stability of Female Labor Force Participation in a Top-Reforming Country

Pignatti, Norberto; Torosyan, Karine; Chitanava, Maka - 2016

Low Female Labor Force Participation (FLFP) constitutes a foregone opportunity at both the macro and at the micro levels, potentially increasing the vulnerability of households and lowering the long-run development perspectives of a country. Most international organizations and national policy...

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The Optimality and Overuse of Labour in Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises

Masso, Jaan; Heshmati, Almas - 2003

For transition economies labour market flexibility is necessary for successful restructuring and reallocation of labour force and for coping with the requirements of the European Monetary Union. In this paper we apply a novel approach to the issue of labour market flexibility in transition...

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Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms: Empirical Evidence from Europe

Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2015

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

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R&D, Embodied Technological Change and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Barbieri, Laura; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …

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Are Robots Stealing Our Jobs?

Pellegrino, Gabriele; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

statistically significant evidence of the expected labor-friendly nature of innovation. More in detail, neither R&D nor investment …

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Is R&D Good for Employment? Microeconometric Evidence from the EU

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

Using a unique firm-level database comprising the top European R&D investors over the period 2002-2013 and running LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labour-friendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment effect appears limited in magnitude and entirely due to...

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