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This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative andqualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatorypower of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on theissue, with reference...
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In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination … and that the labour market in high technology sectors is more flexible than in low technology sectors. We use this index … that employment in low-technology sectors, with a high degree of trade openness and facing less rigidity in the labour …
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This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle … different realizations of firm specific technology shocks, possible leading to default by some firms. The paper advances a new … financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined …
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and with the technology level. This paper contributes by bringing together these two views, both theoretically and … empirically. We show that both the degree of openness and the technology level mediate the impact of exchange rate movements on … labour market developments. According to our estimations, whereas employment in high-technology sectors seems to be …
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Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … size-weighted average management score. We present a formal model of "Management as a Technology", and structurally …
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We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …
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This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model of monopsonistic competition. Multiple equilibria arise because of a strategic complementarity in investment decisions
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This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43developing countries. Our … findings show that exporting and importing activities are importantchannels for the transfer of technology... …
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This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capitalapproach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skillformation. ...
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This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine whether the parent-child correlation in schooling outcomes stems from a causal relationship. Using a large sample of Israeli children who lost one parent during childhood, we...
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