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Quadratic Costs, Innovation and Welfare : The Role of Technology
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
In a Cournot oligopoly set up with constant marginal cost and linear demand, innovation is rewarding. In this paper we … work with a Cournot oligopoly framework with increasing marginal cost and linear demand and show that innovation may not be … interaction we attempt to capture and explain is the one of technology with the possibility of innovation via the intensity of …
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Structural Transformation of Occupation Employment
Duernecker, Georg; Herrendorf, Berthold - 2021
We use census data to show that structural transformation reflects a fundamental reallocation of labor from goods to services, instead of a relabelling that occurs when goods-producing firms outsource their in-house service production. The novelty of our approach is that it categorizes labor by...
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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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Explaining the Decline in the US Labor Share : Taxation and Automation
Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2022
This study provides evidence for the US that the secular decline in the labor share is not only explained by technical change or globalization, but also by the dynamics of factor taxation, automation capital (robots), and population growth. First, we empirically find indications of...
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Endogenous Task-Based Technical Change - Factor Scarcity and Factor Prices -
Irmen, Andreas - 2020
This paper develops a static model of endogenous task-based technical progress to study how factor scarcity induces technological progress and changes in factor prices. The equilibrium technology is multi-dimensional and not strongly factor-saving in the sense of Acemoglu (2010). Nevertheless,...
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Two-Sided Platforms and Biases in Technology Adoption
Choi, Jay Pil - 2020
We investigate the relationship between market structure and platforms' incentives to adopt technological innovations in two-sided markets, where platforms may find it optimal to charge zero price on the consumer side and to extract surplus on the advertising side. We consider innovations that...
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Technology Gaps, Trade and Income
Sampson, Thomas - 2019
theory characterizes how innovation and learning determine technology gaps, trade and global income inequality. Countries … with higher R&D efficiency are richer and have comparative advantage in more innovation-dependent industries where the … innovation-dependence by industry from R&D and bilateral trade data. Calibrating the model implies technology gaps, due to cross …
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Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change : The Canonical Model Revisited
Bowlus, Audra; Robinson, M. Chris; Lochner, Lance; … - 2021
The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...
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Technological Growth and Hours in the Long Run : Theory and Evidence
Reif, Magnus; Tesfaselassie, Mewael F.; Wolters, Maik - 2021
Over the last decades, hours worked per capita have declined substantially in many OECD economies. Using a neoclassical growth model with endogenous work-leisure choice, we assess the role of trend growth slowdown in accounting for the decline in hours worked. In the model, a permanent reduction...
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Technological Sovereignty as Ability, Not Autarky
March, Christoph; Schieferdecker, Ina - 2021
globalization. We develop a competence-based definition of technological sovereignty, which puts innovation policy at the core of … cooperation and trade. Two case studies illustrate how innovation policy might be used to achieve technological sovereignty …
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