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Employment and exchange rates: the role of openness and technology

Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2009

Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. 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...

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Job Mobility along the Technological Ladder : A Case Study of Australia

Kapuscinski, Cezary A.; Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Meng, Xin - 2004

Labour economists have been increasingly interested in the impact of technological change upon employment and unemployment. However, the predominant focus of empirical studies has been on employment and unemployment stocks, whereas technological change is more likely to affect the flows of...

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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Chinese provinces: a panel data analysis

Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - 2006

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic variances has been used for the estimation of...

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Technical change and total factor productivity growth: the case of Chinese provinces

Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2010

In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely external non-economic) as well as...

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A general model of technical change with an application to the OECD countries

Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2011

In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...

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Is corporate R&D investment in high-tech sectors more effective? Some guidelines for European Research Policy

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; Potters, … - 2009

This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The empirical analysis is based on both the European sectoral OECD data and on a unique micro longitudinal database consisting of 532 top European R&D investors. The main conclusions...

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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; … - 2007

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...

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Technological capabilities and patterns of cooperation of UK firms: a regional investigation

Iammarino, Simona; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2009

innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region …. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community Innovation Survey (CIS), provide new insights regarding the relationship … between cooperative linkages for innovation and the development of technological capabilities by business units. Firstly, the …

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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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