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Welfare Analysis in a Schumpeterian Growth Model with Capital

Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok; Reinthaler, Volker - 2001

due to monopoly power. Second, a cost-benefit gap effect leads to excessive research in the private solution because the …

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Outsourcing and technological innovations: a firm-level analysis

Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2008

This paper presents a dynamic model that analyzes how firms' expectations with regards to technological change influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing rapidly. As the pace of innovations in production...

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Outsourcing and technological change

Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2009

We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm's expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...

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The job creation effect of R&D expenditures

Bogliacino, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - 2010

In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel estimations of a demand-for-labour equation augmented with technology. We find that R&D...

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On the rise of health spending and longevity

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Galama, Titus; … - 2009

We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change along with the increase in the...

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Job-hopping in Silicon Valley: some evidence concerning the micro-foundations of a high technology cluster

Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005

that reduce incentives to invest in new knowledge. Using a formal model of innovation we identify conditions where the … innovation benefits of job-hopping exceed the costs from reduced incentives to invest in human capital. These conditions likely …. Consistent with our model of innovation, we also find that outside of the computer industry, California's mobility rates are no …

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Defensive Innovations

Koeniger, Winfried - 2002

Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less-developed countries does not necessarily induce a substantial increase in the wage differential and trade volumes. Building on step-by-step innovations as introduced by Aghion...

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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...

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Innovation, employment and skills in advanced and developing countries: A survey of the literature

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...

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Is demand-pulled innovation equally important in different groups of firms?

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2006

, evidence does not conflict with the idea that innovation may be driven by output. Using a balanced panel of 216 Italian …

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