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Destruction or polarization: Estimating the impact of technology on jobs in Indian manufacturing

Vashisht, Pankaj - 2017

Indian manufacturers have invested significantly in technology upgradations since the economy opened up to foreign … trade and technology in the mid-1980s. In this paper, we examine the impact of technology on employment and skill demand … required labour per unit of output, technology has not reduced the aggregate employment in the Indian manufacturing sector …

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Imperfect signals

Graetz, Georg - 2023

A pre-condition for employer learning is that signals at labor market entry do not fully reveal graduates' productivity. I model various distinct sources of signal imperfection - such as noise and multi-dimensional types - and characterize their implications for the private return to skill...

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Individual and structural influences on the entrepreneurial activities of academics

Bijedić, Teita; Maaß, Frank; Schröder, Christian; … - 2016

contract incentives, wage satisfaction), (ii) institutions (e.g. technology transfer offices, patent exploitation agencies …

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Regional location of business sector research and development

Eliasson, Kent; Hansson, Pär; Lindvert, Markus - 2024

In the paper, we break down business sector R&D at an appropriate regional level (functional analysis regions, FA-regions) in Sweden. We describe the variation and development at the regional level. In an econometric analysis, we examine what affects the location and size of enterprise groups'...

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Effects of foreign acquisitions on R&D and high-skill activities

Eliasson, Kent; Hansson, Pär; Lindvert, Markus - 2015

Using Swedish micro data we find no evidence for the concerns circulating in the public debate that foreign acquisitions lead to reductions in R&D expenditures and high-skilled activities in targeted domestic firms, neither in MNEs nor in non-MNEs. Previous studies have only focused on larger...

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Foreign acquisitions – A shortcut to higher productivity and expansion in smaller firms?

Eliasson, Kent; Hansson, Pär; Lindvert, Markus - 2020

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of foreign acquisitions on the productivity of acquired Swedish firms. However, because an acquisition is an opportunity to restructure a business and because such changes, in turn, can result in increased productivity, the effects may be...

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Prizes for basic research - Human capital, economic might and the shadow of history

Aizenman, Joshua; Noy, Ilan - 2006

This paper studies the impact of global factors on patterns of basic research across countries and time. We rely on the records of major scientific awards, and on data dealing with global economic and historical trends. Specifically, we investigate the degree to which scale or threshold effects...

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Home production technology and time allocation: Empirics, theory, and implications

Fang, Lei; Zhu, Guozhong - 2012

estimate a model of time allocation that emphasizes the role of home production technology. We find it necessary to consider … both labor-augmenting technology and total factor productivity in home production. Based on the estimated model, we study … production technology and wage heterogeneity highlighted. …

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Technological change and the Swedish labor market

Graetz, Georg - 2020

This report takes stock of recent research into the effects of technology on the labor market; assesses to what extent …

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When workers' skills become unbundled: Some empirical consequences for sorting and wages

Nordström Skans, Oskar; Choné, Philippe; Kramarz, Francis - 2022

This empirical paper analyzes labor market sorting across establishments using Swedish register data on cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. We draw on the theoretical foundations of Chone' and Kramarz (2021), in which workers are endowed with sets of multidimensional skills that need to be...

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