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Growth, Development, and Technological Change

Grossmann, Volker - 2007

structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for …

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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice - 2012

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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Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2014

health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and medical innovation. Our first set of regressions include a set of … health spending has a significant and mild effect on health outcomes, even after controlling for medical innovation. However …

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Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-Related Technology Diffusion : Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America's Greater Dist...

Schiff, Maurice - 2017

This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model...

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Socioeconomic Inequality in Low-Carbon Technology Adoption

Burlinson, Andrew; Davillas, Apostolos; Giulietti, Monica - 2023

The widespread consumer adoption of low-carbon technologies (LCTs) is a cornerstone of net zero targets worldwide, however LCTs may not be equally distributed across socioeconomic characteristics. Our paper contributes to the literature by exploring socioeconomic inequality in LCT adoption and...

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New Technologies and Jobs in Europe

Albanesi, Stefania; Dias da Silva, Antonio; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2023

We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased...

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Understanding the Technology of Computer Technology Diffusion : Explaining Computer Adoption Patterns and Implications for the Wage Structure

Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2021

We review the empirical literature about the implications of the computerization of the labor market to see whether it can explain observed computer adoption patterns and (long-term) changes in the wage structure. Evidence from empirical micro studies turns out to be inconsistent with macro...

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F. - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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European Innovation Dynamics and Us Economic Impact : Theory and Empirical Analysis

Welfens, Paul J.J. - 2015

can offer a broad analysis of product innovation dynamics in Europe which should be the basis for not only better supply … communication in relation to product innovation dynamics. Moreover, the approach provides new important arguments in favor of the … TTIP negotiations between the US and the EU and it suggests a broader analytical link between trade, FDI, innovation …

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Sooner Rather than Later : Social Networks and Technology Adoption

Chowdhury, Shyamal; Satish, Varun; Sulaiman, Munshi; Sun, Yi - 2021

Using data from a randomised experiment in Kenya, we estimate the causal effect of social networks on technology adoption. In this experiment, farmers were invited to information sessions about the use of Tissue Culture Banana (TCB), an in vitro banana cultivation technology. We find that an...

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