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Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy
Garicano, Luis - 2005
We present a theory of the organization of work in an economy where knowledge is an essential input in production: a … may produce on their own or in organizations. Our theory generates an assignment of workers to positions, a wage structure … referral markets. We use our theory to study the impact of information and communication technology, and contrast its …
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Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy
Antràs, Pol - 2005
question we propose a theory of the assignment of heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents …
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Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy
Keller, Wolfgang - 2008
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. - 2006
This introduction to a special issue of EINT surveys a collection of ten papers that study various aspects of innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies have been conducted using data drawn from innovation...
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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide : A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration
Chinn, Menzie D. - 2004
To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...
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The Importance of Education and Skill Development for Economic Growth in the Information Era
Hulten, Charles R. - 2017
The neoclassical growth accounting model used by the BLS to sort out the contributions of the various sources of growth in the U.S. economy accords a relatively small role to education. This result seems at variance with the revolution in information technology and the emergence of the...
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FinTech Adoption Across Generations : Financial Fitness in the Information Age
Carlin, Bruce - 2017
This paper analyzes how better access to financial information via new technology changes use of consumer credit and affects financial fitness. We exploit the introduction of a smartphone application for personal financial management as a source of exogenous variation. FinTech adoption reduces...
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Learning Millennial-Style
Carlin, Bruce I. - 2014
The growing use of on-line educational content and related video services has changed the way people access education, share knowledge, and possibly make life decisions. In this paper, we characterize how video content affects individual decision-making and willingness to share in the context of...
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One Ring to Rule Them All? Globalization of Knowledge and Knowledge Creation
Freeman, Richard B. - 2013
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 research from advanced to developing countries and...
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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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