Technological externalities and wages: new evidence from Italian provinces
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2022-03-31
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In this paper, we investigate the relationship between local wages and the internal structure of the regional knowledge base. The purpose is to assess if the workers’ compensations are related to the peculiarities of the technological space where they supply their labor services. To test this hypothesis, we apply the concepts of related and unrelated variety to the firms’ patenting activity as to assess if wages grow more in a framework of ‘knowledge deepening’ (generated by firms innovating in related technological domains) or in one of ‘knowledge widening’ (generated by firms innovating in unrelated technological domains).
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Analisi econometrica, Innovazione tecnologica, Salario
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Dughera S., Quatraro F., Ricci A., Vittori C. (2022), Technological externalities and wages: new evidence from Italian provinces, Roma, Inapp, WP, 85 <https://oa.inapp.org/xmlui/handle/20.500.12916/3475>