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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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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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Endogenous Growth with Public Factors and Heterogeneous Human Capital Producers
Thomas, Ziesemer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
If government revenues from a flat-rate income tax are spent on public factors and public factors are used for human capital production and human capital is used for the production of technical progress, then a higher rate of taxation will lead to a higher rate of technical progress if steady...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108048
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Income Inequality, TFP, and Human Capital
Sequeira, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
A fruitful recent theoretical literature has related human capital and technological development with income (and wages) inequality. However, empirical assessments on the relationship are still scarce. We relate human capital and total factor productivity (TFP) with inequality and discover that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109094
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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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Knowledge Assisted Innovation
Benchimol, Guy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
accomplish such innovations, knowledge management is a must from the front-end of the value chain until its concrete form that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787002
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A Matching Model of Endogenous Growth and Underground Firms
Lisi, Gaetano; Pugno, Maurizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212957
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Влияние на човешкия капитал върху икономическия растеж (България, 1949-2005 г.)
Simeonova-Ganeva, Ralitsa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In Bulgaria, during the transition to market-oriented economy, many analyzes are based on the widely held view that one of the positive legacies of the economies in transition (particularly that of Bulgaria) is the high level of human capital. The high degree of development of education and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259237