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Trade, technology and labour markets : empirical controversies in the light of the Jones model
Pflüger, Michael - 2001
The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD area since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" or "globalisation" and technological progress....
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Trade, labor market rigidities, and government-financed technological change
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
commodity prices, openness induces the government to subsidize technological innovation in the developed country because …
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Information technology and the knowledge elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …
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Returns to education and wage equations
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2001
education in the wage equation. We use a meta-analysis of results for Portugal to show, empirically, that this is the case. The …
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Unemployment duration : competing and defective risks
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001
states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of defective risks. We first use a …
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
-the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …
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Welfare analysis in a Schumpeterian growth model with capital
Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok; Reinthaler, Volker - 2001
In this note we compare the laissez-faire steady-state solution in the Howitt and Aghion (1998) model to the social optimum. The analysis offers several new insights in comparison to the welfare analysis in Aghion and Howitt (1992). We find various new distortions between private and optimal...
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Defensive innovations
Koeniger, Winfried - 2002
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Tax policy, location choices, and market structure
Pfann, Gerard A.; Kranenburg, Hans L. van - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001674113