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A fruitful recent theoretical literature has related human capital and technological development with income (and wages) inequality. However, empirical assessments on the relationship are still scarce. We relate human capital and total factor productivity (TFP) with inequality and discover that,...
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In this paper we use both the standard Census of Manufacturing data and new linked information on worker characteristics for the Finnish manufacturing plants to examine the skilled/unskilled relative demand and its correlation with technology and demand factors. The linked worker-plant data are...
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In this paper I estimate unobserved labor-generated knowledge spillovers within and between six large macroeconomic … series of sectoral knowledge spillover matrices that show the changes in the magnitude and direction of intraand inter … over manufacturing as the main source and destination of new knowledge flows. The analysis of technology flows, measured as …
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Increasing returns to skill is often attributed to the rising relative demand for skilled workers driven by advancement in skill-complementary technology. In the context of India this paper argues that fluctuations in skill-premia in different sectors are primarily because of the shift in the...
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Extant literature indicates that technology, and by implication its underlying knowledge base, determines long … between technology as knowledge and economic performance. This paper imposes a simple production function on annual pooled … knowledge on economic performance. It finds that capital (k), openness to trade (τ), and even the share of government …
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which knowledge is endogenous to economic growth and technological change. However, in both production functions the … with common understanding by which knowledge can be deep and wide and evolving over and in time, meaning human capital is 3 … bunch knowledge together, i.e., human capital and technological knowledge are strictly inseparable. Analysis and intuition …
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programme that was urgent and determinant in the field of industrial sociology in Portugal. It focus again on the processes of …
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industrialisation and innovation in India, and argues that the distinction between the knowledge of “how to make” (manufacture) and the … knowledge of “how to make better” (innovation) was inadequately appreciated in development planning in the country. … innovative capabilities. This article examines the Indian "National System of Innovation" in order to address the question of the …
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innovation, when innovating agents have different costs and information transfer is expensive. We specify their optimisation …. The effect of expected innovation costs and its standard deviation are shown to be distribution dependent. Expected … considered. Transfer costs are found to be far more influential on switching than innovation costs in a symmetric model. Cost …
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structured to adapt to innovation’s gale of creative destruction. Meanwhile, centralized states, even when democratic, have come …-run technological innovation. In the following article, this wisdom is tested using data on international patent activity, scientific …
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