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Parental Education and Invention : The Finnish Enigma
Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Hyytinen, Ari; … - 2023
Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find that: (i) the positive association between parental income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255610
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One or many knowledGe production functions? : Mapping innovative activity using microdata
Conte, Andrea (contributor); Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003322792
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Beyond the knowledge production function : the role of R&D in a multi-faceted innovative process
Catozzella, Alessandra (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003592326
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One or many knowledge production functions? : Mapping innovative activity using microdata
Conte, Andrea (contributor); Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2005
subsample of 2,949 firms from the third European Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3). A bivariate probit analysis framework is … innovation intensity. This paper also discusses an alternative test procedure that permits an extension of Cragg's test in the … analysis of survey data with weighted observations. Results show that R&D is strictly linked to product innovation, while TA is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003222506
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Beyond the Knowledge Production Function : The Role of R&D in a Multi-Faceted Innovative Process
Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - 2014
innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation - internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048139
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Globalization, Technological Change and Skills: Evidence from Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017
There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change over employment in least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization and consequent international technological transfer. Using a panel of 1,940 Ethiopian firms over the period 1996–2004 and deploying GMMSYS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608918
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Globalization and employment: imported skill biased technological change in developing countries
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - 2007
This paper discusses the impact of the international transfer of embodied technological change on the employment evolution of skills in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). A large body of literature has already underlined the occurrence of widening wage and employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263785
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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2024
Matched employee-employer data from the UK are used to investigate the importance of social skills, in particular team-work and communication with co-workers, as a driver of wage growth for workers with lower formal education. We find that in social skills tasks, workers enjoy greater wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581791
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Robots and the Origin of Their Labour-Saving Impact
Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2020
This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within robotic patents. It analyses innovative actors engaged in robotic technology and their economic environment (identity, location, industry), and identifies the technological fields particularly exposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180160
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Robots and the origin of their labour-saving impact
Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2020
This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within robotic patents. It analyses innovative actors engaged in robotic technology and their economic environment (identity, location, industry), and identifies the technological fields particularly exposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389319