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Information and communication technologies are one of the most pervasive technologies in the world, second only to 'human intelligence' or the human brain. Thus, understanding the factors that determine the diffusion of new technologies across african countries is important to understanding the...
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competition between U.S. and Japanese companies in electronics-related industries. The model is similar to that described by Piore … shifts the focus from the mechanical production process to the collaborative innovation process, which requires social …
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Based on the effect of skill-biased technology change (SBTC), this paper builds a search model with heterogeneous firms and workers to explain the dynamics of the wage inequality in the U.S. from 1963-2005. Firms differ in capital intensity (technology content) of the job created and workers...
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This paper aims (1) to test the endowment-based structural change theory proposed by recent studies such as Acemoglu & Guerrieri (2008) and Ju, Lin & Wang (2009); and (2) to explore the linkage between structural coherence and economic growth. By structural coherence, I refer to the degree that...
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This is a prepublication version of the German language version of the entry on ‘Money’ (‘Geld’) in the ‘Historisch Kritisch Wörterbuch des Marxismus’, a comprehensive dictionary of Marxist terminology being produced as an accompaniment to the Marx-Engels-Gesamt-Arbeite (Marx-Engels...
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agricultural insurance program on household level production, borrowing, and saving. The empirical strategy includes both … difference-in-difference and triple difference estimations. I find that, first, introducing insurance increases the production … area of insured crops by around 20% and decreases production diversification; second, provision of insurance raises the …
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machinery provision and the production disposed for sale. All these manage to outline a picture of agricultural holdings in …
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The aim of this study was to analyse the distribution of the multiplier effect of production trigged by the variation … of final sectorial demand and to estimate the overflowing effect of production and employment of the input-output inter …-regional system formed by the regions Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul (the South Region) and Rest of Brazil, structured in …
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picture of the system of production and consumption as a circular process, and it stands in striking contrast to the view … presented by modern theory of a one-way avenue that leads from ‘Factors of production’ to ‘Consumption goods’.” (Sraffa, 1960 …) Neo-Ricardian’s opposition between classical economics and Walrasian theory is based on the representation of production …
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This article deals with the possibilities of implementation of the Activity-Based Costing method in the enterprises of the steel industry in Romania starting from the analysis of the particularity of this branch. Those factors are highlighted, on which the successful implementation of the ABC...
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