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The concept of modularity has gained recently a growing attention in the management literature as a key to explain the …-evolution of technology and organization as the outcome of a complex evolutionary process. In particular, through a set of … different phases and specific conditions of product and technology development, as well as the existence of a relationship …
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The paper analyzes voluntary Free Software/Open Source Software (FS/OSS) organization of work. The empirical setting considered is the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. The paper finds that the production process is hierarchical notwithstanding the modular (nearly decomposable) architecture of...
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We simulate the budget of the main pension institution of the country, the Banco de Previsión Social (BPS), from 1995, the year the reform was passed, to 2050, when the new system should be mature. We perform several sensitivity analyses to evaluate which are the key exogenous variables and...
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Edward P. Lazear‘s thesis that “personal accounts are more consistent with economic principles, avoid government moral hazard, and provide more security than government Social Security” is unsound. The same applies to a number of other statements that are made in the process of expounding...
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Although immigration of workers generates a positive externality on members of domestic pension systems, many countries are very reluctant to allow foreigners into their labor markets. In a political economic framework, we explain this voting outcome by considering a young unskilled median voter...
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-control are more likely to invest in illiquid pensions while less likely to hold very liquid forms of assets. …
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Economic phenomena are interrelated. From a growth perspective, time analysis concerning the choices of present and future consumption and the choices between the allocation of scientific resources should be combined with a space analysis regarding the dissemination of economic activity through...
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, to choose how to allocate technological inputs. A technology choices model is developed, where scarce scientific … resources are alternatively allocated to basic science activities and to applied technology uses. We find that saddle path … objective function, that is, for a second-order Taylor series approximation of a felicity function regarding technology …
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The relations between the riches of nations and the riches of Productive Knowledge (Technology) gains increasing … production, i.e., technology or productive knowledge, gives occasion to a dynamic and uninterrupted growth process, but … technology itself is the product of mental labor. In support of this assertion, a simple model of growth based on productive …
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workers. The paper shows technology has played the dominant role in changing employment patterns in Australia. The finding is …
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