ABSTRACT
In the literature which deals with the phenomenon of technical innovations, the relationship between technical progress and human resources has been amply investigated in terms of the impact of the former on the latter. This chapter will set forth some empirical results which demonstrate the existence of a relationship in the opposite direction, thus strengthening the idea of a bi-univocal relationship between technology and the market of human resources. The data, some of which have already appeared in Leoni (1989b), are the result of a recent survey on a sample of over two hundred firms in a highly industrialized area. 2
