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Innovation networks in the industrial revolution
Rosenberger, Lukas; Hanlon, W. Walker; Hallmann, Carl - 2024
Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors … worked in technologies that were more central within the innovation network. We offer a new approach for measuring the … innovation network using patent data from Britain and France in the late-18th and early-19th century. We show that the network …
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Institutions and technological innovation during early economic growth : evidence from the great inventors of the United States, 1790-1930 : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Insti...
Khan, B. Zorina; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2004
Biographical information on a sample of renowned U.S. inventors is combined with information on the patents they received over their careers, and employed to highlight the implications of patent institutions for markets in inventions and for democratization. The United States deliberately...
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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 …
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The complementary between technology and human capital in the early phase of industrialization
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This Version: July 21st, 2015
The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …
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Capital composition and the declining labor share
Eden, Maya; Gaggl, Paul - 2019 - This Version: November 2019
To what extent can technological advances in the production of capital account for the recent, worldwide decline in the labor income share? We pose two challenges to the automation narrative: first, estimates of the elasticity of substitution (EOS) between capital and labor tend to fall below or...
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Industrialisation and the Big Push in a global economy
Kreickemeier, Udo; Wrona, Jens - 2017
In their famous paper on the "Big Push", Murphy, Shleifer, and Vishny (1989) show how the combination of increasing returns to scale at the firm level and pecuniary externalities can give rise to a poverty trap, thereby formalising an old idea due to Rosenstein-Rodan (1943). We develop in this...
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The diffusion of technological progress in ICT
Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2020
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...
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The impact of digital technologies on worker tasks : do labor policies matter?
Almeida, Rita; Corseuil, Carlos H. L.; Poole, Jennifer P. - 2017
replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled workers. In Brazil, stringent labor market institutions exist to …
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The German productivity paradox : facts and explanations
Elstner, Steffen; Feld, Lars P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2018
Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth. This paper analyzes the reasons behind this disconcerting development. A major factor is the turnaround of the labor market that commenced around 2005. The successful...
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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...
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