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Capital quality improvement and the sources of growth in the euro area

Sakellaris, Plutarchos; Vijselaar, Focco W. - 2005

The euro area experienced a slowdown in output and Total Factor Productivity growth in the 1990s compared to the 1980s …

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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth

Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2008

dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous economic growth and heterogeneous overlapping generations. We calibrate the … model for the US economy. First, we establish that the net effect of a decline in population growth on the growth rate of … growth performance and for individual welfare. Third, we show that the assessment of pension reform proposals may be …

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Optimal Linear Income Taxation and Education Subsidies Under Skill-Biased Technical Change

Jacobs, Bas; Thuemmel, Uwe - 2021

This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC). SBTC affects optimal taxes and subsidies by changing i) direct distributional benefits, ii) indirect redistributional effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education...

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The Effect of Recent Technological Change on US Immigration Policy

Brey, Björn - 2021

Did recent technological change, in the form of automation, affect immigration policy in the United States? I argue that as automation shifted employment from routine to manual occupations at the bottom end of the skill distribution, it increased competition between natives and immigrants,...

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Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers

Battisti, Michele; Dustmann, Christian; Schonberg, Uta - 2022

probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth than unaffected workers. Rather, firms that adopt T&O offer routine workers …

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Market Size and Number of Firms with New Technology

Marjit, Sugata; Dastidar, Krishnendu Ghosh; Das, Gouranga - 2022

In this paper, unlike the conventional wisdom, we demonstrate that the relationship between the size of the market and number of firms would be non-monotonic. While moderate rise in the size would force the local firms to exit and only the foreign firm rules, substantial rise in the size would...

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Techies and Firm Level Productivity

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023

We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by leveraging French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with...

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Accelerating Economic Growth : Lessons From 200,000 Years of Technological Progress and Human Development

Growiec, Jakub - 2022

unleashed -- Part II. The Growth Mechanism -- Chapter 4. Hardware and software -- Chapter 5. Mechanization, automation and the … labor market -- Chapter 6. Scale of operations -- Part III. The Great Leaps -- Chapter 7. Accelerating growth in the past … -- Chapter 8. Accelerating growth in the future -- Part IV. Lessons for the Digital Era -- Chapter 9. Side eﬀects of growth …

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Skilled worker migration and trade: Inequality and welfare

Bougheas, Spiros; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2010

country. We analyze the consequences of this migration for both inequality and welfare for the source and the host country. …

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Fueling growth when oil peaks: Directed technological change and the limits to efficiency

André, Francisco J.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012

scarcity could cast its shadow on world economic growth soon if energy markets are forward looking. We develop an endogenous … growth model that reconciles the current aggregate trends in energy use and productivity growth with the intertemporal …

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