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We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … large and complex market. Our study generates several interesting results related to the adoption and diffusion of Health … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in …
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incentives with social incentives and find that the bias in technology adoption depends crucially on whether the non …
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We study whether technology gains in sectors related to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) increase … effect of ICT-related technology gains on sectoral technology (TFP), we find two sets of results. First, since the mid-2000s … there have been positive and persistent technology spillovers to sectors intensively using ICT. Second, neglecting leasing …
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We consider technology choices between green and brown technologies by firms. We use insights from complexity theory … and also take account of true uncertainty in designing public policy. The green technology offers relatively higher … technology. We show that the long-run outcome is unpredictable despite there being no fundamental uncertainty in the model; small …
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Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes...
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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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This study examines the contingency and threshold effects of economic freedom in the economic globalisation (EG) and inclusive green growth (IGG) relationship in Africa. Based on macro data for 22 African countries and the Driscoll-Kraay standard errors with fixed effects instrumental variable...
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This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as …
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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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which technology leads to employment polarization, and policy makers can vote on immigration legislation. I empirically …
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