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The Complementary between Technology and Human Capital in the Early Phase of Industrialization
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388159
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Export Take-Offs and Acceleration: Unpacking Cross-Sector Linkages in the Evolution of Comparative Advantage
Bahar, Dany; Rosenow, Samuel; Stein, Ernesto; Wagner, … - 2018
. Concretely, we run a horse-race among alternative Marshallian linkages across sectors: input-output relations, technology and … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018127
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Let's Switch to the Cloud: Cloud Adoption and Its Effect on IT Investment and Productivity
Duso, Tomaso; Schiersch, Alexander - 2022
The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms utilize IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace large and inflexible fixed-cost investments in IT with more targeted variable spending in cloud solutions. In addition, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427730
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Cross-Border Patenting, Globalization, and Development
LaBelle, Jesse; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2023
We build a stylized model that captures the relationships between cross-border patenting, globalization, and development. Our theory delivers a gravity equation for cross-border patents. To test the model's predictions, we compile a new dataset that tracks patents within and between countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469518
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Is Industrialization Conducive to Long-Run Prosperity?
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015
economic prosperity, the study establishes that while the adoption of industrial technology was initially conducive to economic … that the characteristics that permitted the onset of industrialization, rather than the adoption of industrial technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531828
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Export Take-Offs and Acceleration : Unpacking Cross-Sector Linkages in the Evolution of Comparative Advantage
Bahar, Dany - 2019
. Concretely, we run a horse-race among alternative Marshallian linkages across sectors: input-output relations, technology and … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892161
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Let's Switch to the Cloud : Cloud Adoption and Its Effect on IT Investment and Productivity
Duso, Tomaso; Schiersch, Alexander - 2022
The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms utilize IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace large and inflexible fixed-cost investments in IT with more targeted variable spending in cloud solutions. In addition, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076705
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The Greener, the Higher: Labor Demand of Automotive Firms during the Green Transformation
Fackler, Thomas; Falck, Oliver; Goldbeck, Moritz; Hans, … - 2024
We investigate differences in labor demand between German automotive firms specializing in green propulsion technology …-universe of online job postings and firms’ patent portfolios. Workforce adjustments are a crucial dimension of technology … with a focus on combustion technology. This gap widens over time and is not driven by unobserved firm heterogeneity. Green …
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Robots and firms
Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel - 2019
literature to formalize the implications of robot technology. As for the first question, we establish robust evidence that ex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018299
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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
Utar, Hale - 2018
Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug cartels, nation-wide homicides almost tripled between 2006 and 2010. Using rich longitudinal plant-level data, this paper studies the impact of violent conflict on firms,...
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