Technological externalities and wages: new evidence from Italian NUTS 3 regions

IF 2.8 4区管理学 Q2 BUSINESS

Industrial and Corporate Change Pub Date : 2023-11-11 DOI:10.1093/icc/dtad062

Stefano Dughera, Francesco Quatraro, Andrea Ricci, Claudia Vittori

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Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we investigate the relationship between local wages and the internal structure of the regional knowledge base. The purpose is to assess if the workers’ compensations are related to the peculiarities of the knowledge base of the regions in which they supply their labor services. The test of this hypothesis is based on the assessment of the impact of related vis-à-vis unrelated knowledge variety on cross-regional wage differentials. The empirical analysis is carried out by exploiting patent data and a unique employer–employee administrative dataset. First, using OECD-PATREG data on patent filing, we build information entropy indexes proxying the variety of NUTS 3 regions’ knowledge bases, and the decomposition in the related and unrelated component. Second, we assess the impact of these indexes on wages based on administrative data from the Italian National Institute of Social Security. Our results suggest that workers employed in regions with a heterogenous knowledge structure earn positive wage premia, while related variety has a negative effect on compensation levels.

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技术外部性和工资:来自意大利NUTS 3地区的新证据

摘要本文研究了地方工资与区域知识库内部结构的关系。目的是评估工人的补偿是否与他们提供劳务的地区的知识基础的特点有关。这一假设的检验是基于评估相关vs -à-vis不相关知识变化对跨地区工资差异的影响。利用专利数据和独特的雇主-雇员管理数据集进行实证分析。首先，利用OECD-PATREG专利申请数据，构建了代表NUTS 3区域知识基础多样性的信息熵指标，并对相关成分和不相关成分进行了分解。其次，我们根据意大利国家社会保障研究所的行政数据评估了这些指数对工资的影响。研究结果表明，在知识结构异质性地区，劳动者的工资溢价为正，而知识结构异质性对薪酬水平有负向影响。

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期刊介绍： The journal covers the following: the internal structures of firms; the history of technologies; the evolution of industries; the nature of competition; the decision rules and strategies; the relationship between firms" characteristics and the institutional environment; the sociology of management and of the workforce; the performance of industries over time; the labour process and the organization of production; the relationship between, and boundaries of, organizations and markets; the nature of the learning process underlying technological and organizational change.