Search Results - "Technological change"

Emerging Uses of Technology for Development : A New Intelligence Paradigm

Verhulst, Stefaan; Addo, Peter Martey; Young, Andrew; … - 2021

With only ten years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), development organizations rapidly need to innovate their approach to decision making and problem solving. New lessons and understandings, born from emerging uses of technology, can enable these innovations. This...

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Understanding the Technology of Computer Technology Diffusion : Explaining Computer Adoption Patterns and Implications for the Wage Structure

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2021

We review the empirical literature about the implications of the computerization of the labor market to see whether it can explain observed computer adoption patterns and (long-term) changes in the wage structure. Evidence from empirical micro studies turns out to be inconsistent with macro...

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The Assignment of Workers to Tasks, Wage Distribution and Technical Change : A Critical Review

Dupuy, Arnaud - 2021

This paper reviews the literature on two-sided atomeless assignment models of workers to tasks. Using simple parametric examples, the fundamental differences between the comparative advantage and the scale of operations models are illustrated. Holding the distributions of abilities and tasks and...

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Outsourcing and Technological Innovations : A Firm-Level Analysis

Bartel, Ann P.; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2021

This paper presents a dynamic model that analyzes how firms' expectations with regards to technological change … place in an environment of increased expectations for technological change. We test the predictions of the model using a … model, namely, that all other things equal, the demand for outsourcing increases with the probability of technological …

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Marriage and Divorce Since World War II : Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - 2021

Since World War II there has been: (i) a rise in the fraction of time that married households allocate to market work, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. It is argued here that labor-saving technological progress in the household sector can...

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Digital divide and open government in the Arab region

Vereinte Nationen / Economic and Social Commission for … - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the limitations of prevailing paradigms to effectively manage today’s complexities to advance sustainable development. In this context, open government and improved transparency in public management are necessary elements to build back better and ensure...

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Inappropriate Technology : Evidence from Global Agriculture

Moscona, Jacob; Sastry, Karthik - 2021

An influential hypothesis explaining the persistence of global productivity differences is that frontier technologies are finely tuned to the local conditions of the high-income countries that develop them and inappropriate for application elsewhere. This paper studies how environmental...

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Flowers of Invention : Patent Protection and Productivity Growth in US Agriculture

Moscona, Jacob - 2021

Patent protection was introduced for plant biotechnology in the United States in 1985, and it affected crops differentially depending on their reproductive structures. Exploiting this unique feature of plant physiology and a new dataset of crop-specific technology development, I find that the...

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Vertical Integration and Technology : Theory and Evidence

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Griffith, Rachel; … - 2021

This paper investigates the determinants of vertical integration using data from the UK manufacturing sector. We find that the relationship between a downstream (producer) industry and an upstream (supplier) industry is more likely to be vertically integrated when the producing industry is more...

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When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation?

Acemoglu, Daron - 2021

This paper studies the conditions under which the scarcity of a factor (in particular, labor) encourages technological progress and technology adoption. In standard endogenous growth models, which feature a strong scale effect, an increase in the supply of labor encourages technological...

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