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Implementing Technology
Comin, Diego - 2007
We introduce a tractable model of endogenous growth in which the returns to innovation are determined by the technology adoption decisions of the users of new technologies. Technology adoption involves an implementation investment that determines the initial productivity of a new technology....
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Innovators : Songwriters
Galenson, David - 2009
Irving Berlin and Cole Porter were two of the great experimental songwriters of the Golden Era. They aimed to create songs that were clear and universal. Their ability to do this improved throughout much of their careers, as their skill in using language to create simple and poignant images...
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Empirical Studies of Innovation in the Knowledge Driven Economy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2006
This introduction to a special issue of EINT surveys a collection of ten papers that study various aspects of innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies have been conducted using data drawn from innovation...
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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
Spolaore, Enrico - 2011
We document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-term historical relatedness between human populations. Historical relatedness is measured using genetic distance, a measure of the time since two populations' last common ancestors. We...
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …
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R&D, Production Structure, and Productivity Growth in the U.S., Japaneseand German Manufacturing Sectors
Mohnen, Pierre A. - 1984
.S., Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with two variable inputs (labor and energy)and two quasi-fixed inputs …
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From Socialist Showcase to Mezzogiorno? Lessons on the Role of Technical Change from East Germany's Post-World War II Growth Performance
Keller, Wolfgang - 1997
explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was … prospects of catching up with West Germany during the post-reunification era. We show, first, that the rates of technical change … account for the fact that East Germany was not the socialist showcase for which it was frequently taken before German …
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Engines of Growth : Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation
Eaton, Jonathan - 1995
We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the …
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Technology, Unemployment, and Inflation
Mincer, Jacob - 2000
We explore the response of employment (unemployment) skill differentials to skill-biased shifts in demand touched off by the new and spreading technologies. We find that skill differentials in unemployment follow at least in part the same pattern as skill differentials in wages: They widen...
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R & D Activities and the Technology Game : A Dynamic Model of U.S.-JapanCompetition
Sato, Ryuzo - 1984
This paper presents an international comparison of R&D activities in basic and applied research. The commonly-held view that Japan is not spending much on basic technology development cannot be empirically substantiated from the study of the historical trends. However, the fact that in the...
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