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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,...
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In this paper we use both the standard Census of Manufacturing data and new linked information on worker characteristics for the Finnish manufacturing plants to examine the skilled/unskilled relative demand and its correlation with technology and demand factors. The linked worker-plant data are...
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In this paper I estimate unobserved labor-generated knowledge spillovers within and between six large macroeconomic … series of sectoral knowledge spillover matrices that show the changes in the magnitude and direction of intraand inter … over manufacturing as the main source and destination of new knowledge flows. The analysis of technology flows, measured as …
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Increasing returns to skill is often attributed to the rising relative demand for skilled workers driven by advancement in skill-complementary technology. In the context of India this paper argues that fluctuations in skill-premia in different sectors are primarily because of the shift in the...
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characterized by the fact that the accumulation increasingly wear on knowledge. First, we will explain and argue our position with … autonomous actor and principal of all current changes of capitalism. Moreover, rather than revolution, the knowledge economy …" promised to developing countries. A key point is reported on the issue of knowledge production. Often discussed bias, this …
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Penang has always been a focal point, absorbing knowledge (and popular culture) from civilizations to the East and West … the development of Penang as an increasingly important Asian knowledge hub. One of the highlighted results of our paper …
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‘professionalism’ from where the journey begins. The art of being a good professional is having a blend of appropriate knowledge …
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). Tabula rasa is the epistemological study that a human is born with no built-in mental content and that human knowledge comes …
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This paper summarizes the theory of knowledge from the book of the same title by the same author. The paper begins by … asking, and answering, what knowledge is. In searching for precise definitions it rids itself of the ambiguous term of … infinity. The seven main laws of knowledge are laid out and discussed. The theory is an economic theory and as such must …
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consider a process of knowledge obsolescence / depreciation that is similar to the depreciation process of physical goods. As a … returns prevail). In this paper, we introduce a new assumption about the generation of knowledge, which involves entropy, i ….e., introducing additional knowledge to generate more knowledge becomes counterproductive after a given point. The new assumption is …
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