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Population aging and the direction of technical change
Irmen, Andreas - 2009
An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions between endogenous capital- and labor-saving technical change and population aging. Following an intuition often attributed to Hicks (1932), I ask whether and how population aging affects the relative scarcity of factors of...
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Asymmetries in global value chain integration, technology and employment structures in Europe : country and sectoral evidence
Bontadini, Filippo; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Meliciani, … - 2021
This paper provides empirical evidence on the complex role played by technology in affecting the relationship between … technology is analysed by taking into account both the technological intensity of offshoring industries and that of their GVC …
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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019
inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026463
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Labor demand in the past, present and future
Graetz, Georg - 2020
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, technological change has led to the automation of existing tasks and the creation of new ones, as well as the reallocation of labor across occupations and industries. These processes have been costly to individual workers, but labor demand has...
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Technological innovations and workers' job insecurity : the moderating role of firm strategies
Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea; Marcolin, Arianna; … - 2023
firms. We find that the relationship between technological innovations and job insecurity is moderated by firms' technology …
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Timing of technology adoption and product market competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakēs, Emmanuēl - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as …. When goods are differentiated enough, adoption occurs later than it is socially optimal. -- technology adoption …
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An empirically-based taxonomy of Dutch manufacturing : innovation policy implications
Raymond, Wladimir; Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz C.; … - 2004
The paper studies the degree of homogeneity of innovative behavior in order to determine empirically an industry classification of Dutch manufacturing that can be used for policy purposes. We use a twolimit tobit model with sample selection, which explains the decisions by business enterprises...
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Technology agreements with heterogeneous countries
Hoel, Michael; Zeeuw, Aart de - 2014
For sufficiently low abatement costs many countries might undertake significant emission reductions even without any international agreement on emission reductions. We consider a situation where a coalition of countries does not cooperate on emission reductions but cooperates on the development...
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Technology lock-in and optimal carson pricing
Hawkins-Pierot, Jonathan T.; Wagner, Katherine R. H. - 2022
effects of entry-year electricity prices on subsequent energy intensity. We discuss how this "technology lock-in" increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202425
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Technology gaps, trade and income
Sampson, Thomas - 2019
This paper studies the origins and consequences of international technology gaps. I develop an endogenous growth model … where R&D efficiency varies across countries and productivity differences emerge from firm-level technology investments. The … theory characterizes how innovation and learning determine technology gaps, trade and global income inequality. Countries …
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