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The circular economy
Fullerton, Don - 2024
Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...
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The sustainability of Chinese growth and the aggregate factor substitution elasticity
Whalley, John; Xing, Chunbing - 2012
sustainability of high Chinese growth. -- China ; growth ; sustainability ; substitution elasticity …We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet … than below one. We use time series data on labor's share in GDP to estimate a substitution elasticity for China, finding …
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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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Role of production networks in sustaining and rebalancing Asia's growth
Thorbecke, Willem; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2012
to the People Republic of China (PRC) and ASEAN for assembly by lower-skilled workers. The finished products are then …
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The greener, the higher : labor demand of automotive firms during the green transformation
Fackler, Thomas; Falck, Oliver; Goldbeck, Moritz; Hans, … - 2024
We investigate differences in labor demand between German automotive firms specializing in green propulsion technology and those with a focus on combustion engines. To this end, we introduce a firm-level labor demand index based on the near-universe of online job postings and firms’ patent...
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Is industrialization conducive to long-run prosperity?
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This version: April 30th, 2015
This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional wisdom that views industrial development as a catalyst for economic growth, highlighting its persistent effect on economic prosperity, the study establishes that while the...
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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 variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...
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Trade in information technologies and changes in the demand for occupations
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2021
contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in … Labour Force Survey and obtain a dataset of 12 European countries and 2001-2007 period. I show that IT imports from China are … be attributed to the trade with China. …
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Green technology adoption and the business cycle
Bourgeon, Jean-Marc; Hovsepian, Margot - 2017
We analyze the adoption of green technology in a dynamic economy affected by random shocks where demand spillovers are the main driver of technological improvements. Firms' beliefs and consumers' anticipations drive the path of the economy. We derive the optimal policy of investment subsidy and...
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The environmental Kuznets curve and sustainability : a panel data analysis
Farhani, Sahbi; Mrizak, Sana; Chaibi, Anissa; Rault, … - 2014
In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental … specification, namely modified EKC (MEKC), we show that there is an inverted U-shape relationship between sustainability and human …. More interestingly, findings from the estimation show that EKC hypothesis, HD and sustainability are crucial to build …
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