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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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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. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in … separately identify the impacts of recent changes in trade and technology on U.S. regional economies. …

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The Effect of Access to Information and Communication Technology on Household Labor Income: Evidence from One Laptop Per Child in Uruguay

Marandino, Joaquin; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

. This program has considerably increased access to information technology within households since evidence shows that … parents make use of the technology. Households in the department of Florida received laptops in 2007, while those in the … Statistics in Uruguay, a difference-in-difference model is estimated to capture the effect of the plan of giving laptops on labor …

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Innovation and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

investments, as in Italian manufacturing. Applying GMM-SYS to an employment equation augmented for technology and using a unique …

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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...

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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Smith, Adam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese …Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle …

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The Demand for Labor: An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data from the German LIAB. Will the High Unskilled Worker Own-Wage Elasticity Please Stand Up?

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

service sectors. Reflecting current preoccupations, our demand analysis seeks also to accommodate the impact of technology and … technology. …

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Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cell Phones on Productivity in a Difficult Business Climate: Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya

Menon, Nidhiya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

significant positive impacts on productivity as measured by value-added per worker, especially for firms with female principal … owners. The exogenous component of technology ownership is isolated by using information on the regional presence of … average regional elevation. Results indicate that for firms with female owners, technology adoption improves value-added per …

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Productivity, Welfare and Reallocation: Theory and Firm-Level Evidence

Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility … where it does not properly measure technology) and makes it possible to calculate the contributions of disaggregated units …-level (EU-KLEMS) and firm-level (Amadeus) data. After adding further assumptions about technology and market structure (firms …

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