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Numeric Control machines have increased the risk of technology-induced displacement of labour in the garment sector. This … displace 80 per cent labour employed in the Indian garment sector, the actual displacement is going to be much lower as, owing … employment growth as expansion in domestic garment demand will be more than sufficient to offset the labour-saving effect of …
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in employment structure. Second, we account for the complex role of technology both in terms of country-industries' own …
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-curve empirical framework to investigate how financial development, globalisation and technology affect income inequality. Our … economies are mixed, technology and financial development lead to increasing inequality for most emerging economies. Hence …
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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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We analyze how firms adjust their labor in response to idiosyncratic shifts in their production function and demand curves using a unique data-set of Swedish manufacturing firms. We show that permanent shocks to firm-level demand is a main driving force behind both job and worker reallocation....
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sector gain influence at the expense of other, non-food lobbies and the general population. In this framework, technology … plays an important role. Technology, by increasing the rate at which the economy expands, allows government to reap the …
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from work; and third, a change in the code of morals in societies approaching an envisioned stationary state of zero net … rather than disutilityyielding work. We assess actual outcomes by 2023 and attempt to peek into the future economic …
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This paper discusses the technological change and financial innovation that commercial banking has experienced during the past twenty-five years. The paper first describes the role of the financial system in economies and how technological change and financial innovation can improve social...
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difference between high- and low-technology industries has to do with the type of labour tasks that are offshored and the types … demand, technology and international competition. The increasing international fragmentation of production, also known as … of the labour force. This paper assesses the employment impact of offshoring, in five European countries (Germany, Spain …
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Financial intermediation has changed dramatically over the past 30 years, due in large part to technological change. The paper first describes the role of the financial system in a modern economy and how technological change and financial innovation can affect social welfare. We then survey the...
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