Technology and employment: Mass unemployment or job creation? Empirical evidence from European patenting firms

Roy, Vincent; Vértesy, Dániel; Vivarelli, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2018.06.008

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“…Although there is some social deprivation for employees over the age of 50, their presence in forestry is growing somewhat [22]. The new jobs that will be created in forestry and forestry will surely require higher qualifications (requirements for operators of mining machinery, monitoring, recording and tracking devices, demands for knowledge of biotechnology and biotechnology, and demands for knowledge of information and communication technologies are increasing) and more experience [23]. Whether for mining machinery, harvesters, transport technology, or for woodworking workers, there will be an increasing emphasis on qualification levels, which is a challenge for secondary and higher education systems [24].…”

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Development and Forecast of Employment in Forestry in the Czech Republic

2019

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Employment in forestry is an essential component of the forestry industry. It is a socio-economic phenomenon, which has been at the edge of economists’ interest for quite a long time. The proportion of employees in the forestry sector is relatively small, standing at only 0.6%. However, forestry as a sector has a very significant multiplier effect which is reflected in the growth of related jobs. Examples of this can be found in the production of forestry machinery and equipment, the construction of wooden and timber structures, and the furniture sector. These sectors are kept separately in economic and statistical records, but forestry remains their natural determinant. The aim of this work is to describe, analyze, and formulate the prognosis for the development of these types of jobs. Conclusions of the work show that there has been a decrease in employment and simultaneously an increase in labor productivity. This is due to a increasingly high use of technological equipment. Development forecasts show that the Czech Republic does not differ from the overall surveyed trends in other selected countries. It is therefore evident that forecasts of the development of employment in forestry are also relevant in other similar countries. Our results show a statistically significant reduction in forestry employment. The analysis focused on the Czech Republic, but the results may also apply to other European countries. A significant decrease in employment leads to instability in the forestry sector. It means a skilled labor force leaves the forestry sector and is not replaced. Disruption of knowledge continuity leads to a negative impact on the environment.

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Development and Forecast of Employment in Forestry in the Czech Republic

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“…Another similarity found is that these skills are developed in consonance with the constant technological and socio-economic changes currently shaking the world, in the same way, that they make reference to Smart Cities. However, with regards to the rest of the skills studied such as computational thinking and virtual collaboration, the findings were not found to be similar to those described in the aforementioned report, given that no skill from the Page Executive Report [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] makes reference to ICT. Nevertheless, in the study from the Jarvis et al [22], we can find data with more similarities.…”

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“…In the second round these levels are grouped in four: The first level groups 11 descriptions of use that suppose an insufficient level of acquisition of the skill, the second level 3 descriptions that suppose a sufficient level, the third group 4 descriptions that suppose a high level and the fourth group 3 descriptions of an excellent acquisition of the skill. Thus, the statements presented are descriptive and composed of ten skills, each with four levels describing their purpose and with a score of Level 1 (0-10), Level 2 (11-13), Level 3 (14-17), Level 4 (18)(19)(20). Each skill carries a detailed description of its characteristics and includes a simulated situation in order to guarantee that all of the individuals interviewed provided their responses from the same standpoint (See Appendix A): Approximation scale of the level of Future Work Skills applied to simulations from Horizon 2020 (EA-HFL-SH2020).…”

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“…Therefore, it is essential the acquisition of skills for work in this group, especially those linked to Smart Cities, since they represent a context in which UFM will have to develop and to which they are not adapted. Likewise, all this must occur in parallel to the educational process developed in institutions [19,20]. Thus, it seems obvious that at both a theoretical and normative level, there is an acceptance of the principle of educational inclusion.…”

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Enhancing Skills for Employment in the Workplace of the Future 2020 Using the Theory of Connectivity: Shared and Adaptive Personal Learning Environments in a Spanish Context

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European living environments are well placed as an essential means through which cities become functional, modern, and liveable places, and are the ideal setting for the innovation and implementation of businesses and ideas. In addition, they are a place in which existing gaps in labour market inclusion are easily widened amongst those who, for various reasons, have not received adequate training, such as immigrants (including unaccompanied foreign minors) and young people without qualifications that have several difficulties in the access to higher education. Further, as is noted in the Phoenix report entitled Future Work Skills 2020, our educational system suffers from a lack of training with regards to the employment skills that need to be integrated into current society, as these have a crucial role for achieving success in the workplace. The aim of this study is to analyse the key skills for the inclusion of Unaccompanied Foreign Minors (UFM) in the workplace, developing a scale for the assessment of ten basic skills for the work of the future. These individuals are mostly young people without qualifications trying to make it in the new environments of current Smart Cities. This study employs an empirical and experimental methodology with two comparison groups of UFM adolescents. The UFM population is contextualised by the migratory flow from North Africa to Europe. Multistage sampling was used to select 345 participants. An approximation scale of the level of Future Work Skills was created as a data collection instrument through simulations of Horizon 2020 (EA-HFL-SH2020). Multivariate analysis was performed which revealed significant differences between school variables, work experience and educational level. The results are aligned with the evaluation of skill acquisition level for the working future of UFM and with the proposed training model of work skills that facilitate their inclusion in the world of the European workforce, as a function of the significant differences found. In addition, the emphasis is placed on the interest of identifying this type of skills in this group in order to develop appropriate training programs in higher education for employment success.

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“…where Growth i,t is employment growth for firm i at time t, while Inn indicates, alternatively, R&D or the number of patents, which represent our innovation proxies. They are inserted with one lag to reduce potential simultaneity bias and given that it is often found that innovation activities affect firm growth with a certain time lag (Falk, 2012;Van Roy et al, 2018). Additionally, our models include lagged growth rates to control for auto-correlation of growth rates.…”

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Innovation and job creation in (high-growth) new firms

Santoleri

2019

Industrial and Corporate Change

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Recent research has underscored the prominent role played by a small fraction of fast-growing new firms in contributing to aggregate net employment growth. While it is typically assumed that those firms experience this superior performance thanks to their ability in undertaking technological innovation, few empirical studies have explicitly addressed this issue. This article examines the innovation-employment nexus for startups using the Kauffman Firm Survey, a unique longitudinal dataset tracking a single cohort of US firms founded in 2004. Results based on fixed effects panel quantile regressions indicate an overall positive but heterogeneous effect of innovation activities on the conditional employment growth distribution. More in detail, the findings reveal that both research and development and patents have a positive association with employment growth especially for those new firms experiencing high growth.

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Technology and employment: Mass unemployment or job creation? Empirical evidence from European patenting firms

Cited by 139 publications

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Development and Forecast of Employment in Forestry in the Czech Republic

Development and Forecast of Employment in Forestry in the Czech Republic

Enhancing Skills for Employment in the Workplace of the Future 2020 Using the Theory of Connectivity: Shared and Adaptive Personal Learning Environments in a Spanish Context

Innovation and job creation in (high-growth) new firms

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