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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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basically depends on material and relational goods, we show that the best-case scenarios hold when technology and social capital … technology and social interaction balance one another in fostering the growth of both the social and the private sector of the … economy. Along such tracks, technology may play a crucial role in supporting a “socially sustainable” economic growth …
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specifically by focusing on solar PV as an energy transition technology. Our analysis shows that IAMs and IBL conceptualize … to develop long-term energy and technology scenarios for the next thirty to eighty years, and to describe learning …
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The public mechanical clock and the movable type printing press were two of the most important and complex general purpose technologies of the late medieval period. We document two of their most important, yet unforeseeable, consequences. First, an instrumental variables analysis indicates that...
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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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Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are widely used to analyse macroeconomic and sectoral effects of climate policies. Developing new and improving existing carbon-free energy technologies will be crucial to limit the long-term economic costs of mitigation policies. Such technologies are...
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