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Going Global: The Challenges for Knowledge-based Economies
Squicciarini, Mariagrazia; Loikkanen, Torsti - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The present volume aims to provide a comprehensive and systemic overview of the challenges that going global poses to knowledge based economies. Its focus is four-fold. 1) Firstly, it investigates why companies, especially high-tech firms, go global, i.e. which are the drivers that push...
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From China with love: Effects of the Chinese economy on skill-biased technical change in the US
Chu, Angus C.; Cozzi, Guido; Furukawa, Yuichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
incorporating production offshoring into a North-South model of directed technical change. We �find that if offshoring is present … change in the North. This fi�nding highlights the different implications of offshoring and conventional trade on innovation …. Furthermore, we �find that an increase in the Southern stock of capital reduces offshoring and also leads to skill …
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Performance, IT maturity and offshoring behaviour of Italian manufacturing corporations in the dire straits of globalisation
de Panizza, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
offshoring of intermediate goods. The information set is based on a balanced panel of enterprises' economic accounts and foreign … to one previously developed for Sweden, allowing for (partial) comparability. Offshoring is positively related to … to outsource. Offshoring decisions and IT maturity, instead, do not present any strong mutual relation. The key issue of …
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India's specialisation in IT exports: Offshoring can't defy gravity
Meyer, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
strong comparative advantage. This paper finds that India owes its IT specialisation in part to its reliance on offshoring … of the reasons for offshoring. …
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New technology and labour Markets: Entrants, outsourcing and matching
Goyal, Ashima - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The impact of new technology (ICT) on labour markets and welfare is analyzed in a model of matching. First, ICT lowers cost and speed of market access, thus reducing frictions in matching a searching worker to an opportunity. It raises output and lowers the cost of entry for a new firm. The rise...
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The Push-Pull Effects of the Information Technology Boom and Bust
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Robertson, John C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This article examines the inflow and outflow of workers to different industries in Georgia during the information technology (IT) boom of the 1990s and the subsequent bust. Workers in the software and computer services industry were much more likely to have been absent from the Georgia workforce...
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Information age to genetic revolution: Embodied technology transfer and assimilation — A tale of two technologies
Das, Gouranga Gopal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
In this paper, a fifteen regions–fifteen sectors global Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model is calibrated. It offers quantitative enumeration of 5% exogenous biotechnological invention in USA in genetically modified crops namely, maize grains and soybean. Consequently, it results in...
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How career changes affect technological breakthrough - Reconsidering the prolonged slump of the Japanese economy -
Azuma, Yoshiaki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper develops a simple overlapping-generations model that relates career choices of highly educated workers to the rate of technological progress over time. The paper shows that, in the recent period of technological breakthroughs, if workers either acquire a sufficiently large number of...
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Printing and Protestants: reforming the economics of the Reformation
Rubin, Jared - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The causes of the Protestant Reformation have long been debated. This paper attempts to revive and econometrically test the theory that the spread of the Reformation is linked to the spread of the printing press. The proposed causal pathway is that the printing press permitted the ideas of the...
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Skill bias, age and organizational change
O'Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper considers evidence on the impact of ICT on demand for different types of workers, focusing in particular on the age dimension. It first examines data from EUKLEMS using regressions standard in the literature and suggests ICT may have adversely affected older workers, in particular...
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