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augmented with technology. We find that R&D expenditures have a job-creating effect, in accordance with the previous theoretical …
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Using national representative samples from population census and mini-census of China, this paper documents important employment dynamics in China from 1990 to 2015. The share of routine manual jobs decreased significant from 57% to 32%; both the share of routine cognitive jobs and the share of...
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Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
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We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...
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According to the compensation theory, market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour …
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While economic theory suggests substitutability between labor and capital, little evidence exists regarding the causal …
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In this paper we test the effect of trust on the choice of child care technology. We estimate individual-level trust as … theory than the proxies or demographic characteristics often used in previous work. Having estimated the individual attitudes …. We find that trust matters for the degree of externalness of the child care technology people choose. It can therefore be …
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This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between … imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income … countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct measure of technology transfer at the sector level from high income …
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Skill-biased technical change is usually interpreted in terms of the efficiency parameters of skilled and unskilled labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workers changes proportionally in all tasks. In contrast, we argue that technical changes also affect the curvature of...
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, firing rate, net labor flows and churning flows), we find that the use of new technology seems to have a positive effect on …
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