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Top Incomes, Rising Inequality, and Welfare
Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - CESifo - 2012
This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...
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Globalization, Wage Polarization, and the Unstable Great Ratio
Cozzi, Guido; Impullitti, Giammario - CESifo - 2014
wage and employment structure? Can it contribute shaping the dynamics of wealth-to-income ratio? To answer these questions … abroad and forces domestic firms to innovate more. Hence, the employment share of production workers shrinks, while the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948905
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The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power: Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects
Tang, Tian; Popp, David - CESifo - 2014
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...
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The Optimal Distribution of the Tax Burden over the Business Cycle
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Asimakopoulos, Stylianos; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper analyses optimal income taxes over the business cycle under a balanced-budget restriction, for low, middle and high income households. A model incorporating capital-skill complementarity in production and differential access to capital and labour markets is de-veloped to capture the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711142
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - CESifo - 2014
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in particular, plays in enhancing, or possibly detracting from,...
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The Internationalisation of R&D and the Knowledge Production Function
García-Vega, María; Hofmann, Patricia; Kneller, Richard - CESifo - 2012
This paper considers the effect of acquisition FDI on the knowledge production function. We distinguish between acquisitions by MNEs from technologically leading countries and those behind the technological frontier. We show that both acquire similarly R&D intensive domestic firms, but there are...
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The Impact of Recent Chemotherapy Innovation on the Longevity of Myeloma Patients: U.S. and International Evidence
Lichtenberg, Frank; Hostenkamp, Gisela - CESifo - 2013
There were no innovations in chemotherapy for myeloma patients during the period 1977-1997, but there have been several important innovations since 1997. We investigate the impact of recent chemotherapy innovation on the longevity of myeloma patients using both time-series U.S. data and...
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The Optimal Energy Mix in Power Generation and the Contribution from Natural Gas in Reducing Carbon Emissions to 2030 and Beyond
Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo; Longden, Thomas; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper analyses a set of new scenarios for energy markets in Europe to evaluate the consistency of economic incentives and climate objectives. It focuses in particular on the role of natural gas across a range of climate policy scenarios (including the Copenhagen Pledges and the EU Roadmap)...
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Employment Protection versus Flexicurity: On Technology Adoption in Unionised Firms
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2008
We analyse how different labour market institutions - employment protection versusflexicurity - affect technology …’ incentives to invest in such technology. We find that increased flexicurity – interpreted as less employment protection and a …. Less employment protection has the opposite effect, since this increases the downside (job losses) of labour …
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Steady-State Growth and the Elasticity of Substitution
Irmen, Andreas - CESifo - 2010
In a neoclassical economy with endogenous capital- and labor-augmenting technical change the steady-state growth rate of output per worker is shown to increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This confirms the assessment of Klump and de La Grandville (2000) that the...
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