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Can a growing world be fed when the climate is changing?

Dietz, Simon; Lanz, Bruno - 2019 - This version: November 2019

We study the capacity to meet food demand under conditions of climate change, economic and population growth. We take a novel approach to quantifying climate impacts, based on a model of the global economy structurally estimated on the period 1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features...

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Commanding nature by obeying her : a review essay on Joel Mokyr's A Culture of Growth

Spolaore, Enrico - 2019

Why is modern society capable of cumulative innovation? In A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy, Joel Mokyr persuasively argues that sustained technological progress stemmed from a change in cultural beliefs. The change occurred gradually during the seventeenth and eighteenth...

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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants' receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 50 percent more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold increase in the number of...

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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...

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Labour markets, trade and technological progress : a meta-study

Terzidis, Nikos; Brakman, Steven; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel - 2019 - This version: June 2019

losers of automation and globalization. Using a sample of 77 studies and 1158 estimates, we find that both effects are … important. Automation is beneficial at the firm level, and is more likely to displace low-skilled employment. Trade is more … literature, automation has a positive effect for estimates considering the period before 1995, and trade a negative effect. We …

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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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Wage inequality and the effort incentive effects of technological progress

Leith, Campbell B.; Li, Chol-won - 2001

To explain the rise in the college wage premium in developed economies in the past decades, the present paper examines the effects of technological progress on workers effort incentives, which determine the effective labor supply. Five effort incentive effects of technological progress are...

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Market structure, technology spillovers, and persistence in productivity differentials

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia - 2001

Using data from 11 main manufacturing industries in 17 OECD countries, this paper empirically investigates the determinants of cross-country differences in the persistence of productivity differentials Specifically, we focus on the effects of product market structure and technology diffusion. It...

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Engineering growth : innovative capacity and development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2017

This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...

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Growth and welfare under endogenous lifetime

Schneider, Maik T.; Winkler, Ralph - 2017 - This Version: February 2017

We study the role of endogenous healthcare choices by households to extend their expected lifetimes on economic growth and welfare in a decentralized overlapping generations economy with the realistic feature that households' savings are held in annuities. We characterize healthcare spending in...

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