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The Employment Impact of Innovation Evidence and Policy

Edited By Mario Pianta, Marco Vivarelli Copyright 2000
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge
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    The diffusion of information and communication technologies is rapidly changing the structure of advanced economies, raising new problems of technological unemployment. The view that market forces can easily counterbalance the labour-saving impact of innovation is contrasted in this book with empirical findings on aggregate compensation effects and on the consequences of product, process and organizational innovation in industries and services. After examining several policy aspects, new employment-friendly economic and innovation policies are proposed.

    1. Introduction: economic structure, technology and employment Mario Pianta and Marco Vivarelli 2. The analysis of technological change and employment Vincenzo Spiezia and Marco Vivarelli 3. Modelling the employment impact of innovation: do compensation mechanisms work? Roberto Simonetti, Karl Taylor and Marco Vivarelli 4. Growth and unemployment: productivity gains vs. demand constraints Paolo Piacentini and Paolo Pini 5. The employment impact of product and process innovations Mario Pianta 6. Organisational innovations, computerisation and employment. Evidence from American manufacturing Philippe Askenazy 7. Innovation and employment in services: results from the Italian innovation survey Rinaldo Evangelista 8. New technology, growth and job creation: the role of learning strategies Kurt Lundgren 9. Innovation and employment in developing countries Dilek Çetindamar Karaömerlioglu and Hancer K. Ansal 10. Compensation mechanisms and targeted economic growth. Lessons from the history of economic policy Eric Reinert 11. Conclusions: are employment friendly policies possible? Mario Pianta and Marco Vivarelli

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    'Anyone interested in issues around innovation and new technology, and around employment, unemployment and the future of work are highly recommended to read this book.' - Research Policy

    'This book constitutes a welcome contribution to the understanding of a crucial, complex, and often wrongly simplified phenomenon.' - Journal of Economics

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