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By reducing the costs of environmental protection, technological change is important for promoting green growth. This …
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We present a model of growth and technology transfer based on the idea that technologies are specific to particular …-run convergence and growth, than either the standard neoclassical model or simple endogenous-growth models …
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countries in traditionally labor-intensive manufacturing (and other) activities, and decreases their gains from trade. Second …
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growth, we show that these changes in the pattern of technology diffusion account for 80% of the Great Income Divergence …
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Although many developing countries have experienced growing income inequality and an increase in the relative demand for skilled workers during the 1980s, the sources of this trend remain a puzzle. This paper examines whether investment and adoption of skill-biased technology have contributed to...
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manufacturing industries in different developed countries …
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In this paper, I develop a model to analyze how skill premia differ over time and across countries, and use this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality. Skill premia are determined by technology and the relative supply of skills. An increase in the relative supply of...
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We develop a consistent and comprehensive theoretical framework for assessing whether economic growth is compatible … integrates population growth, technological change, and changes in health. We apply the framework to five countries that differ …" is very large relative to other forms of capital. As a result, its growth rate critically influences the growth rate of …
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This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints and … sector. We characterize dynamic tax policies that achieve sustainable growth or maximize intertemporal welfare, as a function …-country technological spillovers. We show that: (i) in the case where the inputs are sufficiently substitutable, sustainable long-run growth …
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more highly valued activities on average plays a stabilizing role in manufacturing growth. Our results have implications …We build up from the plant level an "aggregate(d)" Solow residual by estimating every U.S. manufacturing plant …) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the …
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