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Trade in Information Technologies and Changes in the Demand for Occupations
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2021
I use data from the World Input-Output Database and show that trade in information technologies (IT) has a significant contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in trade in IT and has become one of the major...
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Firm-level Human Capital and Innovation: Evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017
Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms’ innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615925
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Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change: The Canonical Model Revisited
Bowlus, Audra; Lochner, Lance; Robinson, Chris; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657918
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ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation : Evidence from BITNET
Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2021
Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315141
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The Education-Innovation Gap
Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022
text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266618
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Techies and Firm Level Productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023
STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348039
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Are There No Wage Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany? A Reassessment
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021
This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
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The Diffusion of Technological Progress in ICT
Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2021
We study whether technology gains in sectors related to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) increase productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative price of ICT goods and services in a structural VAR...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314751
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On the Elasticity of Substitution between Labor and ICT and IP Capital and Traditional Capital
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2022
I estimate CES aggregate production functions for the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, and Spain using data from the EU KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual property (IP) capital, and traditional capital. I assume...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243755
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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273804