'Anyone interested in issues around innovation and new technology, and around employment, unemployment and the future of work are highly recommended to read this book.' - Research Policy'This book constitutes a welcome contribution to the understanding of a crucial, complex, and often wrongly simplified phenomenon.' - Journal of Economics 'I thoroughly recommend [this book] to scholars of the subject and their students and, above all, to all those in government or business who are called upon to take important decisions about our future.' - Research Policy

• 1. Introduction: economic structure, technology and employment Mario Pianta and Marco Vivarelli 2. The analysis of technological change and employment Vincenzo Spiezia and Marco Vivarelli 3. Modelling the employment impact of innovation: do compensation mechanisms work? Roberto Simonetti, Karl Taylor and Marco Vivarelli 4. Growth and unemployment: productivity gains vs. demand constraints Paolo Piacentini and Paolo Pini 5. The employment impact of product and process innovations Mario Pianta 6. Organisational innovations, computerisation and employment. Evidence from American manufacturing Philippe Askenazy 7. Innovation and employment in services: results from the Italian innovation survey Rinaldo Evangelista 8. New technology, growth and job creation: the role of learning strategies Kurt Lundgren 9. Innovation and employment in developing countries Dilek Çetindamar Karaömerlioglu and Hancer K. Ansal 10. Compensation mechanisms and targeted economic growth. Lessons from the history of economic policy Eric Reinert 11. Conclusions: are employment friendly policies possible? Mario Pianta and Marco Vivarelli