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-intensive technology because a lowering of variable costs requires additional use of skilled labour. This way, we establish a link between … trade, technology and relative returns to skilled and unskilled labour. Moreover, we show that as market integration …
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detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent … churning - particularly product rationalization - is far less common in India. We thus find little evidence of "creative …
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the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in … imply that roughly half of India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be …
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technology (like R&D). Technologies can account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for the college educated in the …
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differences, unobserved region-industry factor quality differences and variation in production technology across industries. We … findings, including multiple cones of diversification, region-industry technology differences, agglomeration, and increasing …
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relationship between technology intensity and vertical integration from a simple incomplete contracts model. Then, we investigate … find that the technology intensities of downstream (producer) and upstream (supplier) industries have opposite effects on … measures of technology intensity, with alternative estimation strategies, and with or without controlling for a number of firm …
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computerization instead of R&D as a measure of technology; (iv) in the Anglo-Saxon countries a maximum of one-third of the aggregate …
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management, as a key factor. A model of the interaction between technology, organization and economic performance is then … adjustment in technology-using sectors if it is not suited to the social capabilities of the society; (4) reversal of …
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Recent theoretical models argue that a bank’s organizational structure reflects its lending technology. A … communication technology, have a wider span of organization, and are further removed from a decision unit with lending authority … organizational structure and technology of rival banks in the vicinity influence local banking competition. …
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Poor countries must specialize in standardized, labour-intensive commodities. Middle-income countries may have a richer menu of options available to them if their labour force is reasonably well-educated and skilled. This paper is motivated by the possibility that there may exist multiple...
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