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The Labor Market Impacts of Technological Change : From Unbridled Enthusiasm to Qualified Optimism to Vast Uncertainty

Autor, David H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This review considers the evolution of economic thinking on the relationship between digital technology and inequality across four decades, encompassing four related but intellectually distinct paradigms, which I refer to as the education race, the task polarization model, the...

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Technology frontier, labor productivity and economic growth: Evidence from OECD countries

Azomahou, Theophile; Diene, Bity; Diene, Mbaye - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009

We use 29 OECD countries data spanning over 1960-2000 to study the growth strategy when countries are close to the technology frontier. Relying on a semi-parametric generalized additive model, we estimate labor productivity equations. We find that the number of agents enrolled in higher...

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Ideas and Growth

Lucas, Robert E, Jr - 2008

exchanging ideas, solving work-related problems, generating new knowledge …

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Adjusting to a New Technology : Experience and Training

Helpman, Elhanan - 1998

In this paper we study how aggregate output responds to the arrival of a new General Purpose Technology (GPT) by looking at adjustment mechanisms that operate through labor markets. We show that under a wide set of circumstances the arrival of a new GPT that raises long-run output can trigger a...

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Population and Ideas : A Theory of Endogenous Growth

Jones, Charles I. - 1997

Why do economies exhibit sustained growth in per capita income? This paper argues that endogenous fertility and increasing returns to scale are the fundamental ingredients in understanding endogenous growth. Endogenous fertility leads the scale of the economy to grow over time. Increasing...

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Human Capital and Industrialization : Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment

Squicciarini, Mara P. - 2014

) from upper-tail knowledge. As a proxy for the historical presence of knowledge elites, we use city-level subscriptions to … firm survey from the 1840s, we shed light on the mechanism: upper-tail knowledge raised productivity in innovative …

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Knowledge-based productivity in low-tech industries: evidence from firms in developing countries.

Goedhuys, Micheline; Janz, Norbert; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

examines the knowledge-based determinants of productivity of firms active in food processing, textiles, and garments and … leather products. In particular, it seeks to investigate the importance of various sources of knowledge in explaining … productivity in the different industries. The knowledge sources driving productivity performance are very different across sectors …

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The U.S. Patent System in Transition : Policy Innovation and the Innovation Process

Jaffe, Adam B. - 1999

relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …

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Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries

Verhoogen, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

various dimensions of upgrading --- learning, quality upgrading, technology adoption, and product innovation. The second part …

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Technological Obsolescence

Ma, Song - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

, and reallocation of capital. This finding applies mainly for obsolescence of core innovation and embodied innovation, and … profits of obsolescent firms. The measure contains incremental information about firm innovation relative to measures focusing … on new innovation …

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