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Technological Adaptation, Trade, and Growth

Chong, Alberto - 2000

This paper extends Grossman and Helpman’s seminal work (1991), and presents an endogenous growth model where innovations created in a high-tech sector may be assimilated or adapted by a low-tech sector. Applying a simple Heckscher-Ohlin framework, the effects of technological diffusion are...

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The Endogenous Skill Bias of Technical Change and Inequality in Developing Countries

Behar, Alberto - 2013

This paper draws on existing empirical literature and an original theoretical model to argue that globalization and skill supply affect the extent to which technology adoption in developing countries favors skilled workers. Developing countries are experiencing technical change that is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395381

Does Trade and Technology Transmission Facilitate Inequality Convergence? : An inquiry Into the Role of Technology in Reducing the Poverty of Nations

Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2007

Based on stylized evidence showing variation of the Gini coefficient of income inequality across skill cohorts and on the rapid rise in trade in technology-intensive goods, the ripple effects of technology transmission and income inequality are explored in a global Computable General Equilibrium...

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Can international technological diffusion substitute for coordinated global policies to mitigate climate change?

Barrett, Philip - 2021

In short, yes. I use a multi-region integrated assessment model with fuel-specific endogenous technical change to examine the impact of Europe and China reducing emissions to zero by mid-century. Without international technological diffusion this is insufficient to avoid catastrophic climate...

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Adjustment Costs, Irreversibility, and Investment Patterns in African Manufacturing

Bigsten, Arne - 1999

This paper examines dynamic patterns of investment in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe, assessing the … importance of zero investment episodes and lumpy investment. The proportion of firms experiencing large investment spikes is … significant in explaining aggregate manufacturing investment. Taken together, evidence from descriptive statistics, average …

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Financial Liberalization, Credit Constraints, and Collateral : Investment in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector

Gelos, Gaston - 1999

This paper examines the impact of financial liberalization on fixed investment in Mexico, using establishment …

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Productivity Growth, Technological Convergence, RandD, Trade, and Labor Markets : Evidence From the French Manufacturing Sector

Khan, Tehmina S. - 2006

Total factor productivity (TFP) of 14 manufacturing sectors in France has kept up with that of the United States during 1980-2002 and remained well above that of the United Kingdom. Estimates using a dynamic panel equilibrium correction model indicate that sectors further behind the...

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Demographics, pension systems and the saving-investment balance

Chai, Hua; Kim, Jun-il - 2018

This paper studies the effect of demographic change on national saving, global interest rates, and international capital flows, focusing on the role of the public pension system. We develop a small open economy overlapping generations model to illustrate the channels through which demographic...

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Trade uncertainty and investment in the euro area

Ebeke, Christian; Siminitz, Jesse - 2018

We analyze the impact of trade policy uncertainty on investment in the euro area. Our identification strategy assumes … that countries that are relatively more dependent on global trade networks exhibit a higher sensitivity of investment with … respect to trade uncertainty. We find that the investment-to-GDP ratio is on average 0.8 percentage points lower for five …

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Is technology widening the gender gap? : automation and the future of female employment

Brussevich, Mariya; Dabla-Norris, Era; Khalid, Salma - 2019

Using individual level data on task composition at work for 30 advanced and emerging economies, we find that women, on average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we relate data on task composition at work to occupation...

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