R&D, embodied technological change and employment: evidence from Italian microdata
"This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and embodied technological change (ETC). We use a novel panel dataset covering 265 innovative Italian firms over the period 1998-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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| author | Barbieri, Laura Piva, Mariacristina Vivarelli, Marco |
| author_facet | Barbieri, Laura Piva, Mariacristina Vivarelli, Marco |
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| description | "This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and embodied technological change (ETC). We use a novel panel dataset covering 265 innovative Italian firms over the period 1998-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures; however, this positive effect is barely significant when the sole in-house R&D expenditures are considered and fades away when ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities and R&D expenditures are totally due to firms operating in high-tech industries and large companies, while no job-creation due to technical change is detectable in traditional sectors and SMEs." |
| format | TEXT |
| geographic | Italy |
| id | 023512484179_3fd99a42aeca4161b6ac9b33ab35aa98 |
| institution | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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| is_hierarchy_title | R&D, embodied technological change and employment: evidence from Italian microdata |
| language | English |
| physical | 32 p. Digital |
| publishDate | 2016 |
| publisher | Bonn IZA |
| spellingShingle | Barbieri, Laura Piva, Mariacristina Vivarelli, Marco employment innovation research and development technological change R&D, embodied technological change and employment: evidence from Italian microdata |
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| title | R&D, embodied technological change and employment: evidence from Italian microdata |
| topic | employment innovation research and development technological change |
| url | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-023512484179-R&D,-embodied-technological-ch.htm |