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The diffusion of digital technologies and their impact on employment and skills is investigated inthis article …. We first investigate their effect on total employment finding that job creation in industriesis supported by high digital …
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the fundamental (and still poorly understood) role played by innovation in the finance-growth nexus. …
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This article investigates the role of technology, education and wages in shaping the skill structure of employment … (2007-2011) in order to assess the impact of cycles on employment and skill dynamics, and their determinants. Skills are … of the overall skill structure. Results document the role that different types of technological change, education, wages …
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innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …
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connected economy. Disembodied technological change turns out to positively affect employment dynamics in the "upstream …
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Does capital accumulation increase labor demand and wages? Neoclassical production functions, where capital and labor are q-complements, ensure that the answer is yes, so long as labor markets are competitive. This result critically depends on the assumption that capital accumulation does not...
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mechanisms underlying the relationship between automation and labor market polarization. To do so, we build an agent-based model (ABM) in which workers, heterogeneous in nature and level of skills, interact endogenously on a decentralized labor...
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The present study contributes to the existing literature on routinization and employment by capturing within … educational upgrading in several dimensions and iv) allows one to escape the employment decline conditional on initial routine …
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This paper makes the case that purposive, profit-seeking investments in knowledge play a critical role in the long-run growth process. First, we review the implications of neoclassical growth theory and the more recent theories of 'endogenous growth'. Then we discuss the empirical evidence that...
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. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological …
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