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The Importance of Education and Skill Development for Economic Growth in the Information Era

Hulten, Charles R. - 2017

information technology and the emergence of the “knowledge economy”, or with the increase in educational attainment and the growth …

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Learning Millennial-Style

Carlin, Bruce I. - 2014

, share knowledge, and possibly make life decisions. In this paper, we characterize how video content affects individual …

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The Economic Impact of Universities : Evidence from Across the Globe

Valero, Anna - 2016

We develop a new dataset using UNESCO source materials on the location of nearly 15,000 universities in about 1,500 regions across 78 countries, some dating back to the 11th Century. We estimate fixed effects models at the sub-national level between 1950 and 2010 and find that increases in the...

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Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy

Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2021

We present a theory of the organization of work in an economy where knowledge is an essential input in production: a … knowledge economy. In this economy a continuum of agents with heterogeneous skills must choose how much knowledge to acquire and …, and a continuum of knowledge-based hierarchies. Organization allows low skill agents to ask others for directions. Thus …

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A Spatial Knowledge Economy

Davis, Donald R. - 2015

Leading empiricists and theorists of cities have recently argued that the generation and exchange of ideas must play a more central role in the analysis of cities. This paper develops the first system of cities model with costly idea exchange as the agglomeration force. Our model replicates a...

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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide : A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie David; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2021

), infrastructure indicators (telephone density, electricity consumption), telecommunications pricing measures, and regulatory quality …

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One Ring to Rule Them All? Globalization of Knowledge and Knowledge Creation

Freeman, Richard B. - 2014

This paper directs attention at the globalization of knowledge and knowledge creation as the fundamental global driver … of economic outcomes in today's information economy. It documents the globalization of knowledge and spread of scientific …; boosts labor standards; and influences incomes and inequality within and across countries. To the extent that knowledge is …

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Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy

Keller, Wolfgang - 2014

This paper presents and tests a new model of multinational firms to explain a rich array of multinational behavior. In contrast to most approaches, here the multinational faces costs to transferring its know-how that are increasing in technological complexity. Costly technology transfer gives...

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Empirical Studies of Innovation in the Knowledge Driven Economy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2013

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies …

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Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy

Antras, Pol; Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2022

How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the structure of wages? To study this question we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in production and more skilled agents...

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