system (GIS) mapping, the paper presents evidence that production technology in the tropics has lagged behind temperate zone … technology in the two critical areas of agriculture and health, and this in turn opened a substantial income gap between climate … and weak agricultural technology in the tropics have combined to slow the demographic transition from high fertility and …

- as a response to occasional major changes in technology. When such a change occurs, leading nations may have no incentive …

We survey research on the relationship between technology and trade. We begin with the old literature, which treated … the state of technology as exogenous and asked how changes in technology affect the trade pattern and welfare. Recent … research and development. This allows one to examine not only how technology affects trade, but also how trade affects the …

change in structure. This paper seeks to fill the gap by study- ing the impact of domestic technology, foreign technology and … for 24 manufacturing industries. Holding time and industry effects constant we find that in most cases technology has the … technology constant we find mixed results for trade. Effects of trade on real wages are generally insignificant once time effects …

growth, we show that these changes in the pattern of technology diffusion account for 80% of the Great Income Divergence …

technological revolutions. In the model, the average productivity of a new technology is uncertain and subject to learning. During …

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …

these shortcomings by focusing on technological learning-by-doing: the notion that it takes workers time using a technology …