TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Dosi, Giovanni
AU  - Piva, Mariacristina
AU  - Virgillito, Maria Enrica
AU  - Vivarelli, Marco
        TI  - Embodied and Disembodied Technological Change: The Sectoral Patterns of Job-Creation and Job-Destruction
        PY  - 2019/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12408
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12408
        AB  - This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change turns out to positively affect employment dynamics in the "upstream" sectors, while expansionary investment does so in the "downstream" industries. Conversely, the replacement of obsolete capital vintages tends to exert a negative impact on labour demand, although this effect turns out to be statistically less robust. 
        KW  - innovation
KW  - disembodied and capital-embodied technological change
KW  - employment
KW  - job-creation
KW  - job-destruction
KW  - sectoral interdependencies
        ER  -