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Innovation, human capital and earning distribution: towards a dynamic life-cycle approach
Vona, Francesco; Consoli, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
knowledge. The dynamic life-cycle approach elaborated in the second part provides a coherent account of the evidence, and … indicates interesting implications for innovation and educational policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835707
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Environmental Kuznets Curve: An Envelope of Technological Progress
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper develops a growth model to provide a theoretical explanation of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). Paper explains how EKC is shaped with economic development for a given technology. The EKC result arises in two ways – it can be observed from a single technology that matures and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805882
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How enterprise strategies are related to innovation and productivity change: An empirical study of Japanese manufacturing firms
Fujii, Hidemichi; Kazuma, Edamura; Sumikura, Koichi; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
are used to analyze the determinant factors related to improvements in innovation and productivity. Our results indicate … that increasing technology and knowledge through a “black box” process is related to an increase in productivity …. Furthermore, the protection and management of production knowledge and expertise is a valid method of increasing global technical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112811
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ICT and occupation-based measures of organisational change: Firm and employee outcomes
Böckerman, Petri; Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that organisational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113358
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A Model of Total Factor Productivity Built on Hayek’s View of Knowledge: What Really Went Wrong with Socialist Planned Economies?
Harashima, Taiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Because Hayek’s view goes beyond the Walrasian framework, his descriptive arguments on socialist planned economies are prone to be misunderstood. This paper clarifies Hayek’s arguments by using them as a basis to construct a model of total factor productivity. The model shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855541
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Proximity and Innovation in Italian SMEs
Morone, Piergiuseppe; Petraglia, Carmelo; Testa, Giuseppina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Abstract: In this paper we assess the relevance of both knowledge creation and diffusion processes in affecting Italian … SMEs’ propensity to innovate. In doing so a knowledge production function (KPF) is estimated for a representative sample of … magnitude of such impact being decreasing in firms’ size. Second, knowledge diffusion via geographical proximity enhances the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622012
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Real Wages, Wage Inequality and the Regional Cost-of-living in the UK
Cinzia, Rienzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
University graduates in the UK are more concentrated in regions where the cost of housing is higher, implying that they face a higher cost-of-living that could possibly reduce the graduate real wage relative to other groups and carry implications for measures of wage dispersion. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647344
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Emigration of Skilled Labor under Risk Aversion: The Case of Medical Doctors from Middle Eastern and North African Economies
Driouchi, Ahmed; Kadiri, Molk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This is a contribution to the new economics of skilled labor emigration that focuses on the mobility of medical doctors from sending Middle East and North African countries. Economic models under risk neutrality and aversion are used. The findings show that the relative expected benefits and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008595632
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An Analysis of the Underlying Causes of the Poor Performance of Recent Immigrants Using the 2006 Census PUMF and Some Observations on Their Implications for Immigration Policy
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the poor performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It presents the data which shows that immigrants from less developed countries are doing much worse than immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532162
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The Occupations and Human Capital of U.S. Immigrants
Schoellman, Todd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper estimates the multi-dimensional human capital endowments of immigrants by characterizing their occupational decisions. This approach allows for estimation of physical skill and cognitive ability endowments, which are difficult to measure directly. Estimation implies that immigrants as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621534