We analyze the effects of R&D-driven automation on economic growth, education, and inequality when high-skilled workers … are complements to machines and low-skilled workers are substitutes for machines. The model predicts that innovation … low-skilled individuals as long as both technology and education are endogenous. This is true irrespective of whether …

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

analyzed five different measures of process innovation output: cost reductions, defect rate reductions, reductions in … of process innovation and that smaller firms are more likely to introduce new processes and are better able to transform … them into higher output. All five process innovation outputs are associated with higher labor productivity and higher sales …

innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …

connected economy. Disembodied technological change turns out to positively affect employment dynamics in the "upstream" sectors …

has demonstrated that education plays an important factor. Researchers need to go beyond technological explanations for …

underlying the decline of routine occupations and its link with informal employment in a middle-income country context. To shed … downgrading for routine manual workers: workers in routine manual formal employment become increasingly unemployed or use … informality as a buffer against job loss, and workers in routine manual informal employment become unemployed or transit to non …

in education and training, reform the tax system, reduce early retirement incentives, improve the job-matching process …