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Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition
Kuku, Yemisi; Orazem, Peter F.; Singh, Rajesh Kumar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004
skills who do not usecomputers. Controlling for likely simultaneity between computer use at work and labor marketearnings … makes the apparent returns to computer use disappear. These results are corroboratedusing Russian longitudinal data on … earnings and computer use on the job. High costs of computeruse in transition economies suppress wages that firms can pay their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360910
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Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition: TheoryAppendix
Orazem, Peter F.; Singh, Rajesh Kumar; Kuku, Yemisi - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006
skills who do not use computers. Controlling for likely simultaneity between computer use at work and labor market earnings … makes the apparent returns to computer use disappear. These results are corroborated using Russian longitudinal data on … earnings and computer use on the job. High costs of computer use in transition economies suppress wages that firms can pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360844
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SPATIAL LABOR MARKETS AND TECHNOLOGYSPILLOVERS - ANALYSIS FROM THE USMIDWEST
Miranowski, John A.; Monchuk, Daniel C. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004
The primary focus of this paper is the impact of knowledge creation and innovative activity onnon-farm employment growth. Non-farm employment growth is modeled in a stylized modelwhere new knowledge and local economic externalities are key factors driving technologygrowth. For our empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360909
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Fishing Behavior Across Space and Time
Veyssiere, Luc Pierre; Weninger, Quinn - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009
Models of fishing behavior rarely incorporate the complexities of marine ecosystems,multiple-stock harvest technologies, and regulations present in real world marinefisheries. We introduce a structural model of a multi-species, weak-output-disposabilityharvest technology. A latent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360741
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Technology and Innovation in World Agriculture:Prospects for 2010-2019
Huffman, Wallace E. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009
The objective of this paper is to assess prospects for increasing agricultural productivitythrough advances in technology and innovation in farming techniques for developed and selectivedeveloping and transition countries over 2010-2019. Over this period of time, the net impact ofclimate change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360769
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Testing for Complementarity and Substitutability among Multiple Technologies: The Case of U.S. HogFarms
Li, Yu; Hurley, Terrance M.; Kliebenstein, James; … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011
We propose a strategy to identify the complementarity or substitutability amongtechnology bundles. Under the assumption that alternative technologies are independent,we develop a hypothetical distribution of multiple technology adoptions. Differencesbetween the observed distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360778
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Firm Size, Technical Change And Wages In The PorkSector, 1990 -2005
Li, Yu; Hurley, Terrance M.; Kliebenstein, James; … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011
We propose a strategy to identify the complementarity or substitutability amongtechnology bundles. Under the assumption that alternative technologies are independent,we develop a hypothetical distribution of multiple technology adoptions. Differencesbetween the observed distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360800