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Study looked at 400 Italian manufacturing firms.
A study that looked at 400 Italian manufacturing firms found that:
 
1. Firms that adopted new technologies exhibited a stronger tendency to employ more skilled workers.
 
2. Unskilled Italian workers seem to have been particularly vulnerable to the combined effect of technological change.


Firms that adopted new technologies exhibited a stronger tendency to employ more skilled workers.


Unskilled Italian workers seem to have been particularly vulnerable to the combined effect of technological change.


Piva, Mariacristina & Santarelli, Enrico & Vivarelli, Marco, 2003. "The Skill Bias Effect of Technological and Organisational Change: Evidence and Policy Implications," IZA Discussion Papers 934, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
Piva, Mariacristina & Santarelli, Enrico & Vivarelli, Marco, 2003. "The Skill Bias Effect of Technological and Organisational Change: Evidence and Policy Implications," IZA Discussion Papers 934, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

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A study that looked at 400 Italian manufacturing firms found that:

1. Firms that adopted new technologies exhibited a stronger tendency to employ more skilled workers.

2. Unskilled Italian workers seem to have been particularly vulnerable to the combined effect of technological change.


Piva, Mariacristina & Santarelli, Enrico & Vivarelli, Marco, 2003. "The Skill Bias Effect of Technological and Organisational Change: Evidence and Policy Implications," IZA Discussion Papers 934, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).