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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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. 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 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 …
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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 explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in … separately identify the impacts of recent changes in trade and technology on U.S. regional economies …
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We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall...
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An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
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. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology that fits with cross …
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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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call technology shifters (economic factors). We use several composite technology indices based on appropriate combinations … of the external economic factors which are indicators of different aspects of technology. These technology indices are … specific external economic factors. Furthermore, the technology shifters allow for non-neutral and biased shifts in TC. We also …
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