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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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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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When new technologies become available, it is not only essential that firms have the correct investment incentives, but often also that consumers make the proper usage decisions. This paper studies investment and usage in a shared ATM network. Because all banks coordinate their ATM investment...
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simple labour demand model that shows the role played by technological change. By reducing the costs of activities that are …
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The paper analyses the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work and derives some salient … implications for the labour market. The analysis focuses on the switch from occupational specialization at 'Tayloristic … combinations of skills and thereby 'resegment' the labour market, raising the wages and job opportunities of some workers relative …
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either to reproduce itself, or, at some additional cost, to produce a higher quality of capital, which requires less labour … rate of the economy and the rate of adoption of new technologies is determined by preferences, technology and initial …
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influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing … rapidly. As the pace of innovations in production technology increases, the firm has less time to amortize the sunk costs …
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Using micro data for Belgium we investigate the relationship between occupational tasks changes and the rise of service trade. We focus the analysis on the extensive margin and look at the heterogeneous proliferation of firms involved in exports and imports of services across sectors...
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technology and total output increase. Population growth absorbs much of the growth of output, but income per capita does rise …
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This paper develops a growth model in which the endogenous evolution of technological progress and wage inequality is consistent with the observed pattern in the United States and several European economies in the last two centuries. The model accounts for: a) the rise in wage inequality between...
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