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Goldin and Katz's <i>The Race between Education and Technology</i> is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified …
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Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified …
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created. In a static version where capital is fixed and technology is exogenous, automation reduces employment and the labor …
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I analyze an economy in which firms can undertake both labor- and capital-augmenting technological improvements. In the long run, the economy resembles the standard growth model with purely labor-augmenting technical change, and the share of labor in GDP is constant. Along the transition path,...
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innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … suggestive evidence that equilibrium distortions in the direction of technology can be substantial in the context of industrial …
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access to new technologies, this mismatch between skills and technology can lead to sizeable differences in total factor …
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We propose a model in which economic relations and institutions in advanced and less developed economies differ as these societies have access to different amounts of information. This lack of information makes it hard to give the right incentives to managers and entrepreneurs. We argue that...
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of each technology is determined by a profit-maximizing R&D sector. When there is a high proportion of skilled workers in …
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equal access to new technologies, this mismatch between skills and technology can lead to sizable differences in total …
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