Ricerc@Sapienza

In the last decades there has been a lot of concern about structural changes in the labour market caused by innovations. A lot of studies have been published and may be divided in different strands of literature: skill-biased technological change and its evolution routine-biased technological change, evolutionary theory and geographical theories on tacit knowledge and spatial inequality.
In this study I am going to find and explain the effects of innovations on spatial inequality both in and out of the labour market. Regarding the effects in the labour market I can study the ones on value added, hours worked, productivity, employment and compensation of employees both within and between different sector and maybe wage inequality, regarding the effects out of the labour market I can study the ones on growth and maybe income inequality.
In this study I am going to answer questions like: Are the structural changes caused by innovations enough to explain the increase of inequality, or are there other channels linked to innovations? And if this is the case which are these channels? Have innovations the same effects in all sectors?
Increase in productivity in one sector (or industry or firm) may also change the demand of labour in other sectors, so I am going to try to find the substitutabilities and complementarities between sectors.