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Product and process innovations in the life cycle of an industry
Filson, Darren - 2000
Filson (2001) uses industry-level data on firm numbers, price, quantity, and quality along with an equilibrium model of industry evolution to estimate the nature and effects of quality and cost improvement in the personal computer industry and four other new industries. This paper studies the...
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(Un)employment and skillsformation in Chile : an explorationof the effects of training in labourmarket transitions
Bogliaccini, Juan A.; Madariaga, Aldo; Rojas Peralta, Miski - 2022
Labour markets are currently undergoing tremendous challenges. Automation, skilled-biased technological change, or offshoring are transforming challenges and opportunities for workers. In this context, international organizations have highlighted the crucial role of labour market policies and...
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On the implications of unobserved technology and preference shifts for aggregate labor demand and supply
Balleer, Almut - 2009
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Flexible prices, labor market frictions, and the response of employment to technology shocks
Mandelman, Federico S.; Zanetti, Francesco - 2013
Recent empirical evidence establishes that a positive technology shock leads to a decline in labor inputs. Can a flexible price model enriched with labor market frictions replicate this stylized fact? We develop and estimate a standard flexible price model using Bayesian methods that allows, but...
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Employment structures in China from 1990 to 2015: demographic and technological change
Ge, Peng; Sun, Wenkai; Zhao, Zhong - 2021
Using national representative samples from population census and mini-census of China, this paper documents important employment dynamics in China from 1990 to 2015. The share of routine manual jobs decreased significant from 57% to 32%; both the share of routine cognitive jobs and the share of...
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Technology Shocks, Employment, and Labor Market Frictions
Mandelman, Federico; Zanetti, Francesco - 2014
Recent empirical evidence suggests that a positive technology shock leads to a decline in labor inputs. However, the standard real business cycle model fails to account for this empirical regularity. Can the presence of labor market frictions address this problem without otherwise altering the...
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Technology Shocks, Employment and Labour Market Frictions
Mandelman, Federico - 2010
Recent empirical evidence suggests that a positive technology shock leads to a decline in labour inputs. However, the standard real business model fails to account for this empirical regularity. Can the presence of labour market frictions address this problem, without otherwise altering the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142666
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Technological progress and (un)employment development
Blien, Uwe; Ludewig, Oliver - 2016
Ein wichtiges Thema der Volkswirtschaftslehre ist die Erklärung der Arbeitslosigkeit und ihrer Variation gemäß … unterschiedlicher Bedingungen. Verschiedene moderne Ansätze führen die Höhe der Arbeitslosigkeit auf institutionelle Regelungen der … Arbeitslosigkeit nicht zur Verfügung, da die Institutionen innerhalb eines Landes weitgehend konstant sind. Um eine Erklärung zu bieten …
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Technological progress and (un)employment development
Blien, Uwe; Ludewig, Oliver - 2017
In recent times the employment effects of technical progress raised much intention. Will recent productivity gains lead to technological unemployment or to a new prosperity? In our paper it is shown formally that under general and standard preconditions the price elasticity of demand on product...
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R&D, embodied technological change and employment : evidence from Spain
Pellegrino, Gabriele; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 2002-2013. Our GMM-SYS estimates generate various results, which are partially in contrast with the extant literature. Indeed,...
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