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Aggregate shocks or aggregate information? : Costly information and business cycle comovement

Veldkamp, Laura (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006

has examined complementarities in production, we propose that sectors make similar input decisions because of … complementarities in information acquisition. Because information about driving forces has a high fixed cost of production and a low … correlated production choices. This mechanism amplifies the effects of common shocks, relative to sectoral shocks. …

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Fiscal zoning, sales taxes, and employment : do higher sales taxes lead to more jobs in retailing and fewer jobs in manufacturing?

Burnes, Daria; Neumark, David; White, Michelle J. - 2012

We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...

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Does the growth process discriminate against older workers?

Langot, François (contributor); … - 2008

This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment, when considering heterogeneous agents in terms of age. We introduce life cycle features in the endogenous job destruction framework à la Mortensen and Pissarides (1998). We show that, under the assumption of...

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Understanding the technology of computer technology diffusion : explaining computer adoption patterns and implications for the wage structure

Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2008

micro studies turns out to be inconsistent with macro studies that are based on CES production functions. We propose a micro … foundation for the CES production function that allows for changes in the underlying structure. We adapt the macro model by …

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The "dynamic" of job competition during the ICT revolution

Chéron, Arnaud (contributor); Langot, François (contributor) - 2007

"Our paper seeks to gain insights on the effect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization process of the labor market fostered by the diffusion of novel technologies. Based on micro...

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ICT adoption and productivity in developing countries : new firm level evidence from Brazil and India

Basant, Rakesh; Commander, Simon; Harrison, Rupert; … - 2006

This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the determinants of ICT adoption and its impact on performance in both countries. The descriptive evidence shows that Brazilian firms on average use ICT more intensively than their...

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Growth, development, and technological change

Grossmann, Volker (contributor); … - 2007

The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding of the fundamental sources of economic growth and development. In this chapter we survey important contributions in the field by focussing on the basic structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as...

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The diffusion of pay for performance across occupations

Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2010

In this paper the differences in the incidence of pay for performance plans between occupations in a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments are analyzed. Our results show that there are significant differences between occupations in the incidence of individual, group and firm or plant...

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North-South trade-related technology diffusion : virtuous growth cycles in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2010

This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...

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The role of education in technology use and adoption : evidence from the Canadian workplace and employee survey

Riddell, William Craig; Song, Xueda - 2012

Adoption of innovations by firms and workers is an important part of the process of technological change. Many prior studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster than those with less education. Such positive correlations between the level of education and the...

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