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Globalization and Technology Transfer in Ethiopia: Their Impact on Domestic Employment and Skills

Haile, Getinet; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2014

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...

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Innovation and employment: Some evidence from European sectors

Bogliacino, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2011

In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel estimations of a demand-for-labour equation augmented with technology. We find that R&D...

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The impact of R&D on employment in Europe: A firm-level analysis

Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2011

majority of industrial sectors. This evidence should be kept in mind by European innovation policy makers having employment as …

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Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance: the Microeconomic Evidence

Vivarelli, Marco - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2012

The aim of this study is to provide a microeconomic investigation of the concept of entrepreneurship; in particular, it discusses the following issues: 1) the alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing “creative destruction” from simple “turbulence”; 2) the different...

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The Middle Income Trap: A Way Out Based on Technological and Structural Change

Vivarelli, Marco - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2014

innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through which a … into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technological … transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of sectoral …

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Technology and employment:The job creation effect of business R&D

Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2014

After discussing theory regarding the consequences of technological change on employment, our aim is to test the …

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Is Corporate R&D Investment in High-Tech Sectors More Effective?

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; Potters, … - Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, … - 2009

-tech sectors. This outcome means that corporate R&D investment is more effective in the high-tech sectors and this may need to be …, R&D investment is not the sole source of productivity gains; technological change embodied in gross investment is of …

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