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Income Inequality, TFP, and Human Capital

Sequeira, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

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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Personalized medicine as innovation : what can Germany learn from the USA

Kichko, Katharina - 2019

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Technology and skill-upgrading: Results from linked worker-plant data for Finnish manufacturing

Vainiomäki, Jari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

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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Intra- and Inter-Sectoral Knowledge Spillovers and TFP Growth Rates

Quella, Núria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

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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Skill premium: What caused the ‘mismatch’?

Roy, Satyaki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

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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