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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 … Survey of Manufactures and the Business Expenditures Survey (services, wholesale and retail trade), both administered during …
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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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We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, but rapidly decreasing at higher levels. The dynamic analyses of capital accumulation in MEs...
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This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in … attention to unique issues that arise with female entrepreneurship …
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It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the extent to which the local human capital level, measured as the share of prime age adults with a college degree, has positive external effects on labor force participation and...
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