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AI technologies and employment. Micro evidence from the supply side

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  • Giacomo Damioli

    (European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy)

  • Vincent Van Roy

    (European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Seville, Spain)

  • Daniel Vertesy

    (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland – UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, The Netherlands)

  • Marco Vivarelli

    (Dipartimento di Politica Economica, DISCE, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, The Netherlands – IZA, Bonn, Germany)

Abstract

This study is based on a worldwide longitudinal dataset of 3,500 front-runner companies that patented AI technologies over the period 2000-2016. Our results support the labor-friendly nature of product innovation in the AI supply industries.

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  • Giacomo Damioli & Vincent Van Roy & Daniel Vertesy & Marco Vivarelli, 2022. "AI technologies and employment. Micro evidence from the supply side," DISCE - Quaderni del Dipartimento di Politica Economica dipe0025, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche (DISCE).
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    Keywords

    Innovation; artificial intelligence; patents; employment;
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    JEL classification:

    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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