Marco Vivarelli

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore—Milano, Italy, and IZA, Germany

I am very happy to contribute to the general debate about the possible labor consequences of innovation, hoping to provide useful material in terms of policy implications

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Author

Current position

Full Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Economic Policy at the Catholic University (UCSC, Milano), Italy

Research interest

Economics of innovation, entrepreneurship, applied microeconometrics

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

He has been scientific consultant for the International Labour Office (ILO), World Bank (WB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and the European Commission (EC)

Qualifications

PhD Economics, Pavia University, 1992; PhD Science and Technology Policy, SPRU—Sussex University, 1992

Selected publications

  • “R&D drivers and age: Are young firms different?” Research Policy 43 (2014): 1544–1556 (with J. García-Quevedo and G. Pellegrino).

  • “Trade, technology and skills: Evidence from Turkish microdata.” Labour Economics 18 (2011): S60–S70 (with E. Meschi and E. Taymaz).

  • “Trade and income inequality in developing countries.” World Development 37 (2009): 287–302 (with E. Meschi).

  • “Internal and external R&D: A sample selection approach.” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 66 (2004): 457–482 (with C. Piga).

  • “Start-up size and industrial dynamics: Some evidence from Italian manufacturing.” International Journal of Industrial Organization 17 (1999): 965–983 (D. Audretsch and E. Santarelli).