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developed health systems. This paper provides new evidence on the role senior doctors play in determining patient outcomes. I …
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We construct a multi-layer model of skills, occupations, and sectors. Technological progress among middle-skill occupations raises the employment shares and relative wages of lower- and higher-skill occupations (horizontal polarization), and those of managers over workers (vertical...
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show long-lasting health impacts. Can these benefits hold when these programs are offered to all children in contexts with … universal healthcare? We evaluate the short- and medium-term health impacts of Sure Start, a universal integrated ECI in England … disadvantaged areas and likely driven by both health and non-health services. …
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This paper investigates the importance of the age composition for pandemic policy design. To do so, it introduces an economic framework with age heterogeneity, individual choice, and incomplete information, emphasizing the value of testing. Calibrating the model to the US Covid-19 pandemic...
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This paper focuses on comparisons of productivity, (unit) labor cost and industrylevel competitiveness for the … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …
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technical skills, and green technology adoption. …
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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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Numeric Control machines have increased the risk of technology-induced displacement of labour in the garment sector. This … technology. …
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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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in employment structure. Second, we account for the complex role of technology both in terms of country-industries’ own …
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