The determinants of the skill bias in Italy: R&D, organisation or globalisation?

Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli ()

Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2004, vol. 13, issue 4, 329-347

Abstract: In this study three possible determinants of the increase in the ratio between skilled and unskilled workers are tested together: R&D, organisational change, and foreign direct investment. After analysing the literature, these hypotheses are jointly tested using a SUR estimate. The results - regarding a panel of 488 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 1989-1997 - suggest the statistical significance of the impact of organisational change, while they tend to exclude a direct relation between R&D spending and skill upgrading. With reference to FDIs, the nature of the data and the results do not permit the exclusion of their possible influence.

Keywords: R&D; Organisation; Skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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