Education, routine, and complexity-biased Key Enabling Technologies: evidence from Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Roberto Antonietti, Luca Cattani, Francesca Gambarotto and Giulio Pedrini

Industry and Innovation, 2023, vol. 30, issue 1, 103-134

Abstract: \We analyse the relationship between the endowment of Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) and the demand for occupations, tasks, and skills in the local labour market areas (LLMAs) of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. We merge three data sources, and we compute the share of highly educated employees, of employees accomplishing low- versus high-routine tasks, and three novel indicators measuring the complexity of occupations, tasks, and skills. Our panel estimates show that a larger share of KETs not only corresponds to a higher demand for workers holding a tertiary education degree, or accomplishing less routinary tasks, but also to a higher demand for a wider, and more exclusive, set of occupations, tasks, and skills. These results are also robust to unobserved heterogeneity and reverse causality.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2022.2045910

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