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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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-related international technology diffusion. Our model's explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period …
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Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
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Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades …, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth … technological innovation to raise labor productivity. This paper identifies three reasons why technological innovation has become …
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capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …
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Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure … the major forces behind the evolving wage structure in China …
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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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health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and medical innovation. Our first set of regressions include a set of … observed medical technologies by country. Our second set of regressions proxy technology using a spatial process. The paper … health spending has a significant and mild effect on health outcomes, even after controlling for medical innovation. However …
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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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pace of technology diffusion and education, but also to the level of product market regulation (competition) and employment …
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