Arbeitspapier

Embodied and Disembodied Technological Change: The Sectoral Patterns of Job-Creation and Job-Destruction

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 turns out to positively affect employment dynamics in the "upstream" sectors, while expansionary investment does so in the "downstream" industries. Conversely, the replacement of obsolete capital vintages tends to exert a negative impact on labour demand, although this effect turns out to be statistically less robust.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12408

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Thema
innovation
disembodied and capital-embodied technological change
employment
job-creation
job-destruction
sectoral interdependencies

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dosi, Giovanni
Piva, Mariacristina
Virgillito, Maria Enrica
Vivarelli, Marco
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2019

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dosi, Giovanni
  • Piva, Mariacristina
  • Virgillito, Maria Enrica
  • Vivarelli, Marco
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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