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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 … 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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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 … vitro banana cultivation technology. We find that an additional social connection with a treated farmer causes an untreated …
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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits
Launov, Andrey - 2010
The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits displays a time-varying exit rate. Building on Semi-Markov processes, we translate these exit rates into an expression for the aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation...
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Technological Advance, Social Fragmentation and Welfare
Bosworth, Steven; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from the premise that technological progress falls primarily on market-traded commodities rather than prosocial relationships, since the latter intrinsically require the expenditure of...
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Trust, Child Care Technology Choice and Female Labor Force Participation
El-Attar, Mayssun - 2021
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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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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Growth, Development, and Technological Change
Grossmann, Volker - 2007
The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding of the fundamental sources of … structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for … wage inequality, long-run divergence between the innovating North and the imitating South due to inappropriate technology …
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Skill Complementarity in Production Technology : New Empirical Evidence and Implications
Stoyanov, Andrey - 2019
Matched worker-firm data from Danish manufacturing reveal that 1) industries differ in within-firm worker skill dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher average skill dispersion. We argue that these patterns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867157
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Innovation, Inequality and a Golden Rule for Growth in an Economy with Cobb-Douglas Function and an R&D Sector
Welfens, Paul J.J. - 2015
capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income … both trade and foreign direct investment and thereby get a better understanding of complex international investment, trade … and FDI dynamics – including with respect to the envisaged Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership …
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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure
Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - 2021
between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms' incentives to innovate and competitive … increase in the size of discrete innovation may decrease firms' incentives to conduct continuous improvement. A unique feature …
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