Education, routine, and complexity-biased Key Enabling Technologies: evidence from Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Antonietti, Roberto; Cattani, Luca; Gambarotto, Francesca; Pedrini, Giulio
• Is Part Of: Industry and innovation. Volume 30:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 103
• Page End: 134
• Publication Date: 2023-01-02
• Subjects: Key Enabling Technology -- complexity -- occupations -- tasks -- skills; J24 -- O33 -- R10; Industries -- Periodicals; Industrial management -- Periodicals; Industrial policy -- Periodicals; 338.005
• DOI: 10.1080/13662716.2022.2045910
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1366-2716

Abstract

ABSTRACT: \We analyse the relationship between the endowment of Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) and the demand for occupations, tasks, and skills in the local labour market areas (LLMAs) of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. We merge three data sources, and we compute the share of highly educated employees, of employees accomplishing low- versus high-routine tasks, and three novel indicators measuring the complexity of occupations, tasks, and skills. Our panel estimates show that a larger share of KETs not only corresponds to a higher demand for workers holding a tertiary education degree, or accomplishing less routinary tasks, but also to a higher demand for a wider, and more exclusive, set of occupations, tasks, and skills. These results are also robust to unobserved heterogeneity and reverse causality.