differences defined by technology. In the aggregate time series relative unemployment is defined by educational unemployment … hiring and training response is quicker than the wage response. We also observe in time series that the pace of technology … technology, maturing of the workforce, and growth of international trade reduce unemployment in the longer run. The same …

that Japan is not spending much on basic technology development cannot be empirically substantiated from the study of the … technology.The second part of the paper is to show how two countries, one with heavy R&D activities in basic technology (the U ….S.A.)and the other with heavy R&D activities in applied technology(Japan), can compete in the world market with their productivity …

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 …

We introduce a tractable model of endogenous growth in which the returns to innovation are determined by the technology … adoption decisions of the users of new technologies. Technology adoption involves an implementation investment that determines … the initial productivity of a new technology. After implementation, learning increases the productivity of a technology to …

We investigate what happens to hours worked after a positive shock to technology, using the aggregate technology series …

This paper assesses biofuels technology readiness and provides foresight to biofuels development in Southern Africa …

-Saharan Africa and more advanced developing and developed countries. Technology can help to overcome distances between producers and …

/medium-sized processors, can be overcome with innovation and technology adoption. Technologies and innovation in these sectors have been both …; and facilitate payments. We evaluate the role of technology in South African fresh fruit and selected processed food value …

a rising return to education, unobserved skill, and work experience, but there is little research into causes of 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 …

creation of formal technology licensing offices at universities. Up until approximately the mid-1980s, university patents were …