supply of labor encourages technological progress. In contrast, the famous Habakkuk hypothesis in economic history claims …This paper studies the conditions under which the scarcity of a factor (in particular, labor) encourages technological … that technological progress was more rapid in 19th-century United States than in Britain because of labor scarcity in the …

labor reallocation, which should raise employment in non-exposed sectors, and Keynesian multipliers, which should reduce …Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing …

against the disabled in hiring, firing, and pay. Although the ADA was meant to increase employment of the disabled, it also … employment of disabled men of all working ages and disabled women under age 40. The effects appear to be larger in medium size … little evidence of an impact on the nondisabled, suggesting that the adverse employment consequences of the ADA have been …

labor-friendly impact of R&D expenditures (mainly related to product innovation) is found; yet, this positive employment …) capital formation is found to be negatively related to employment; this outcome suggests a possible labor-saving effect due to …The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, the economic insights on the employment impact of technological …

We study the dynamic taxation of capital and labor in the Ramsey model under the assumption that taxes and public good …

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change over employment in least developed countries (LDCs … in affecting employment and skills. The results obtained lend support to a labour–augmenting effect. Moreover, the …