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suggest that developing countries grow faster when they are globally competitive in low-technology manufacturing and natural …
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This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology … technologies. Our results suggest that an acceleration of technology adoption would be associated with faster de-routinization and …
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. Unlike more mature, computer-based technologies, frontier technologies of the recent technology wave substantially lower …
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Functioning markets for technology are an important determinant for the type, scope and distribution of innovation … activities in an economy. However, markets for technology are often underdeveloped or inefficient. Existing theory attributes … structural forces that shape the demand side of markets for technology. In this study, we reason that demand depends on the …
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Does access to the broadband internet stimulate firm growth? In this paper, I analyze within-firm growth of established firms caused by the access to faster internet using geocoded social-security data. I identify firm responses to the access to the first generation of broadband internet and...
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In this paper, four commonly provided explanations for the shift in labour demand for different skill groups are … investigated: the substitutability of inputs; the own-price sensitivity for different types of labour; the effect of economic … growth and the impact of technological change. In general, the shift of demand away from unskilled labour can be explained by …
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This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
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Technology (S&T) policies, usually inspired by the so-called linear model and by neoclassical economics, are frequently …
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and technology fields in an economy. Industrial and trade policies, by contrast, tend to favor economic specialization …
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