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Technological push and pull factors of bilateral migration
Ghodsi, Mahdi; Landesmann, Michael; Barišić, Antea - 2024
This paper explores the complex interplay between technology adoption, specifically robotisation and digitalisation, and international migration within the EU and other advanced economies, including Australia, the UK, Japan, Norway and the US, over the period 2001-2019. Utilising a gravity model...
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Direct and spillover effects of agricultural technology adoption programs : experimental evidence from the Dominican Republic
Aramburu, Julián; Garone, Lucas Figal; Maffioli, Alessandro - 2019
This paper estimates the impact of an agricultural technology adoption program on agricultural production and income using an experimental approach. The context of analysis is the Program for the Support of Innovation in Agricultural Technology (PATCA II) implemented in the Dominican Republic....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028598
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Pyramid capitalism : cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt
Diwan, Ishac; Keefer, Philip; Schiffbauer, Marc - 2016
the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the … 1996 and 2006 experienced lower aggregate employment growth during the period than those that did not. A wide array of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544875
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Demography, capital accumulation and growth
Stehrer, Robert; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2022
ageing on economic growth, capital deepening and robotisation in 27 European Union (EU) labour markets. First, we … econometrically assess the effects of ageing and potential labour market shortages on growth. Second, we test the hypothesis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013417455
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Innovation, R&D investment and productivity in Chile
Álvarez, Roberto; Bravo Ortega, Claudio; Navarro, Lucas - 2010
This paper uses two sources of information and different methodologies to analyze the causal effect of product and process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246567
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What explains the productivity decline in manufacturing in the nineties in India?
Ray, Saon - 2014
productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and … the period. The most significant factor affecting efficiency change, technical change and productivity growth is RD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437777
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Digging into the technological dimension of environmental productivity
Belloc, Filippo; Valentini, Edilio - 2022
We propose a mixture model approach to identify locally optimal technologies and to dissect environmental productivity (output produced per unit of emission) into a technological and a managerial component. For a large sample of plants covered by the EU ETS, we find that the share of plants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013438621
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Automation, Performance and International Competition: Firm-level Comparisons of Process Innovation
Kromann, Lene; Sørensen, Anders - 2015
productivity growth than other firms. Moreover, automation improves the efficiency of all stages of the production process by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142380
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Which migrant jobs are linked with the adoption of novel technologies, robotisation, and digitalisation?
Ghodsi, Mahdi; Stehrer, Robert; Barišić, Antea - 2024
In recent decades, the development of novel technologies has intensified due to globalisation, prompting countries to enhance competitiveness through innovation. These technologies have significantly improved global welfare, particularly in sectors like healthcare, where they have facilitated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014472491
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Emerging through technological capability : an overview of India's technological trajectory
Ray, Amit Shovon (contributor) - 2008
” growth process. -- INDIA ; TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITY ; LEARNING ; TFP ; IPR …
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