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Trade, technology, and wages : general equilibrium mechanics
Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 1998
start with a graphic tour through the mechanics ofgeneral equilibrium theory on trade and wages. This provides a set of …
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Trade, technology, and wages : general equilibrium mechanics
Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000986128
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Competing recombinant technologies for environmental innovation
Zeppini, Paolo; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2010
This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of Arthur (1989). This allows us to evaluate if and how an economy locked into a dirty technology can be unlocked and move towards...
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The adoption of energy efficiency enhancing technologies
Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - 1997
This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of the firm and hence its behaviour on input and output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338456
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An empirical measure for labor market density
Gautier, Pieter; Teulings, Coen N. - 2000
In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) "Index for industry concentration". This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303301
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Globalization, roundaboutness, and relative wages
Francois, Joseph F.; Grier, Kevin; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2004
We depart from the trade and wages literature and its emphasis on North-South trade, examining North-North by … developing the basic linkages between trade-based integration and relative wages in an Ethier-type division of labor model. Using … this model we identify a formal relationship between international trade, productivity, and wages. We then examine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334843
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Educational choice, initial wage and wage growth
Mazza, Jacopo; Ophem, Hans van - 2020
We investigate the major choice of college graduates where we make choice dependent on expected initial wages and … expected real wage growth and expected initial wages across majors. Furthermore, the differences in these expectations appear …
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Globalization, globailisation : trade, technology, and wages
Ethier, Wilfred - 2002
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Green technology adoption and skill reallocation
Nijs, Sacha J. den; Tyros, Stefanos - 2023
The green transition towards a carbon neutral economy constitutes a technological transformation, in which firms need to invest in new, clean technologies. In order to be operated, these new technologies often require a set of technology-specific skills that differ from those that were relevant...
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