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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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Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …, employment, and capital equations largely corroborate the implications of the behavioral models of the two types of enterprise …
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covers the period 1993-2005. The estimates indicate that it is advantageous to adjust the stock of labour and capital … simultaneously. The cost advantage of simultaneous changes is small for capital but is large for labour. The empirical results …
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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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This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...
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asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, capital intensity, and technology – are …, technological progress was weak; it was through capital intensification that periphery economies gained efficiency and … achieving real convergence and, by extension, nominal convergence. We conclude by outlining technology as the key convergence …
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Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...
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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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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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. 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 …
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