Technology, Employment and Skills: An Interpretative Framework

Eurasian Business Review

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-89

  Vivarelli, Marco ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employment; Innovation; Skill biased Technological Change; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897994408     PISSN: 13094297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14208/BF03353818     Document Type: Article

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