Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature

By M. Vivarelli. Social Science Research Network, 2011

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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 reference both to the advanced economies and the developing countries (DCs).

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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1. M. Vivarelli
2. M. Virgillito
3. Giovanni Dosi
4. M. Piva
5. Vincent Van Roy
6. D. Vértesy
7. G. Crespi
8. Pluvia Zúñiga

Citations in the corpus

• Innovation Strategies and Employment in Latin American Firms (2012, background): “Tan and Batra (1997) for Colombia, Mexico, and Taiwan; Lopez-Acevedo (2002a) for Mexico; and Araujo, Bogliacino, and Vivarelli (2011) for Brazil all provide evidence of skillbiased technological change.”
• Technology and employment: Mass unemployment or job creation? Empirical evidence from European patenting firms (2018, methodology): “…competition, in case the demand elasticity is low, or when investment and consumption decisions are limited by different factors such as pessimistic expectations or credit rationing (for analyses focusing on these critical aspects, see Freeman and Soete, 1987; Pianta, 2005; Vivarelli, 1995, 2014).”
• Jobs for Shared Prosperity: Time for Action in the Middle East and North Africa (2013, background): “Moreover, Coad and Hoelzl (2010) and Vivarelli (2012) provide extensive literature surveys on the relation between innovation and job creation.”
• Embodied and disembodied technological change: The sectoral patterns of job-creation and job-destruction (2019, methodology): “1 The role of embodied technological change was initially emphasized by Salter (1960) and then analyzed and tested both at a macro-level (Jorgenson, 1966; Hercowitz, 1998; Mukoyama, 2006) and at a micro one (see Conte and Vivarelli, 2014; Piva and Vivarelli, 2018).”
• The impact of automation on employment: just the usual structural change? (2018, background): “Secondly, with increasing automation in the sectors of application, there is an increase in demand for technological products (robots and AI) not only in the developing and producing sectors, but also in the upstream supplying and supporting sectors, which create new jobs as well [15,16,18,40,41].”