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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …
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-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects …
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assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the technology change, provided that the observed rise in redistributive … the new technology diffuses. …
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The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work … abilities work as unskilled workers in production jobs, and those at the bottom of the ability distribution work in service …
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intensive countries reduce domestic R&D effort, in favour of an increase in foreign technology transfers, which suggests … complementarities in the knowledge assets of the MNE and the target firm as a reason for FDI. In contrast, consistent with technology …
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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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We analyse how different labour market institutions - employment protection versusflexicurity - affect technology … adoption in unionised firms. We consider both trade unions’ incentives to oppose or endorse labour-saving technology, and firms …’ incentives to invest in such technology. We find that increased flexicurity – interpreted as less employment protection and a …
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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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regulation such as technology-based standards. One of the principle reasons for such an assertion is that they give firms greater … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and …
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