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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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In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination … and that the labour market in high technology sectors is more flexible than in low technology sectors. We use this index … that employment in low-technology sectors, with a high degree of trade openness and facing less rigidity in the labour …
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We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non-marginal stochastic jump processes. From the model analytics we determine that the average magnitude and frequency of non-marginal stochastic jump processes are the most important...
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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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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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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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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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We present evidence on the impact on students' math and reading scores of one of the largest deployments of an OLPC program and the only one implemented at a national scale: Plan Ceibal in Uruguay. Unlike previous work in the field, we have unique data that allow us to know the exact date of...
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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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