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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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Finance and the reallocation of scientific, engineering and mathematical talent

Marin, Giovanni; Vona, Francesco - 2022

The US financial sector has become a magnet for the brightest graduates in the science, technology, engineering and mathematical fields (STEM). We provide quantitative bases for this anecdotal fact for the US, over the period 1980-2019 and with a specific focus on the last decade where...

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Routinization within-occupation task changes and long-run employment dynamics

Consoli, Davide; Marin, Giovanni; Rentocchini, Francesco; … - 2022

The present study adds to the literature on routinization and employment by capturing within-occupation task changes over the period 1980-2010. The main contributions are the measurement of such changes and the combination of two data sources on occupational task content for the United States:...

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The effect of within-sector, upstream and downstream energy taxes on innovation and productivity

Franco, Chiara; Marin, Giovanni - 2013

The aim of the paper is to investigate the effect of environmental stringency on innovation and productivity using a … innovation can be one of the channels through which higher sectoral productivity can be reached. The main findings suggest that … downstream stringency is the most relevant driver for innovation and that most of the effect of regulation on productivity is …

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The future prospects of energy technologies : insights from expert elicitations

Verdolini, Elena; Anadon, Laura Diaz; Baker, Erin; … - 2016

Expert elicitation is a process for eliciting subjective probability distributions from experts about items of interest to decision makers. These methods have been increasingly applied in the energy domain to collect information on the future cost and performance of specific energy technologies...

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Too early to pick winners : disagreement across experts implies the need to diversify R&D investment

Anadon, Laura Diaz; Baker, Erin; Bosetti, Valentina; … - 2016

Mitigating climate change will require innovation in energy technologies. Policy makers are faced with the question of … how to promote this innovation, and whether to focus on a few technologies or to spread their bets. We present results on …

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