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Can the University Save Europe?
Ritzen, Jo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556213
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The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview
Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace "tasks" between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries and fostered employment polarization – that is, rising employment in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010648184
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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
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A General Model of Technical Change with an Application to the OECD Countries
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323543
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Convergence to the Managerial Frontier
Maloney, William F.; Sarrias, Mauricio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using detailed survey data on management practices, this paper uses recent advances in unconditional quantile analysis to study the changes in the within country distribution of management quality associated with country convergence to the managerial frontier. It then decomposes the contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790511
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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646291
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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Smith, Adam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721628
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790517
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An Innovation Index Based on Knowledge Capital Investment: Definition and Results for the UK Market Sector
Clayton, Tony; Dal Borgo, Mariela; Haskel, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole …-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we … could get more GDP without innovation by simply duplicating existing physical capital and labour (e.g. adding a second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761737
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The Big Trade-Off in the World of Labor
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
The world is changing rapidly. This paper describes key shifts and it discusses their likely impacts on employment-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However, there will be no "end of work". Rather, it is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269610