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The transatlantic productivity gap : is R&D the main culprit?
Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; … - In: The Canadian journal of economics 47 (2014) 4, pp. 1342-1371
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349129
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The transatlantic productivity gap : is R&D the main culprit?
Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2011
The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US can be explained not only by a lower level of corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235193
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The Transatlantic Productivity Gap : Is R&D the Main Culprit?
Ortega-Argilés, Raquel - 2011
The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US can be explained not only by a lower level of corporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127961
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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature
Vivarelli, Marco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393120
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282387
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Innovation and employment : technological unemployment is not inevitable - some innovation creates jobs, and some job destruction can be avoided
Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
in many advanced economies. While process innovation can be job-destroying, product innovation can imply the emergence of … new firms, new sectors, and thus new jobs. But even for process innovation, the final impact on labor demand is shaped by … impede them. Policies should maximize the job-creation effect of product innovation and minimize the direct labor …
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The job-creation effect of patents : some evidence from European microdata
Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527399
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Testing the employment and skill impact of new technologies : a survey and some methodological issues
Barbieri, Laura; Mussida, Chiara; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137308
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Job creation effects of R&D expenditures : are high-tech sectors the key?
Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2011
In this paper we assess the job creation effect of R&D expenditures, using a unique longitudinal database of 677 European companies over the period 1990-2008. We estimate a dynamic labour demand specification using a Least Squares Dummy Variable Corrected (LSDVC) technique. The labour-friendly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011982194
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Embodied and disembodied technological change : the sectoral patterns of job-creation and job-destruction
Dosi, Giovanni; Piva, Mariacristina; Virgillito, Maria … - 2019
This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022748