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Growth, Development, and Technological Change

Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding ofthe fundamental sources of economic growth and development. In this chapter we surveyimportant contributions in the field by focussing on the basic structure of endogenous growthmodels with horizontal as well...

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Management as a Technology?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the...

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Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle dynamics, where firms rely on banks and households for capital financing. Firms are identical ex ante but differ ex post due to different realizations of firm specific technology...

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Employment and Exchange Rates : The Role of Openness and Technology

Alexandre, Fernando - 2009

Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition and with the technology level. This paper...

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Human Capital Externalities with Monopsonistic Competition

Kaas, Leo - 2021

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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Technology and the Demand for Skill : An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences

Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John; Lane, Julia; … - 2021

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...

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Manufacturing Employment and Exchange Rates in the Portuguese Economy : The Role of Openness, Technology and Labour Market Rigidity

Alexandre, Fernando - 2010

In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination of the effect of the exchange rate on employment in Portugal. We develop an index that allows us to measure labour market flexibility at the sector level. This index shows that...

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Violent Conflict Exposure in Nigeria and Economic Welfare

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum - 2019

countries. In this paper we attempt to estimate the casual impact of conflict in Nigeria on welfare related outcomes. The 2009 … in the North Eastern and Central parts of Nigeria. However, bouts of violent conflict have existed in different … Nigeria using the three waves of the Nigerian General Household Survey (GHS) panel combined with The Armed Conflict Location …

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Hollowing Out the Middle? Remittances and Income Inequality in Nigeria

Bang, James T. - 2018

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing …

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First and Second Generation Impacts of the Biafran War

Akresh, Richard - 2017

We analyze long-term impacts of the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War, providing the first evidence of intergenerational impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing years exhibit reduced adult stature, increased likelihood of being overweight, earlier age at first birth, and lower educational...

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