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Technological change, economic growth, and income inequality : MSA evidence from the 1990s.
Lehman, Thomas Eric - 2004
, not increase, household income inequality. In a related vein, this research study seeks to test the theory of an extended … the theory that growth and inequality might both be related to SBTC resulting from structural shifts away from a mature … industrial economy and toward the emerging information and knowledge economy of the 1990s and beyond. This theory, too, must be …
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The effects of technical and organizational change on labor markets
Gärtner, Dennis - 2001
A new strand of literature has recently sought to investigate possible links between technological changes, observed modifications to firms' organizational structure and the evolution of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers. After a brief overview of such approaches, this essay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471673
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Economic internationalisation and the distribution of income : a comparison of the cases of Germany and the U.S.
Wacker, Ulrich - 2002
ofinternational trade theory. Focusing on general equilibrium frameworks stems from the insight that economicinternationalisation in … market issues established by human capital theory with the general equilibrium-leddebate on trade and the functional … ofinternational trade theory. Focusing on general equilibrium frameworks stems from the insight that economicinternationalisation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471731
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Join the Leader, Imitate or Follow: Evolutionary Stable Strategies in the Commons
Schott, Stephan - 2010
"We develop an evolutionary game theory model for a limited access common pool resource. With full disclosure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468354
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Distribution of benefits of irrigation induced technological changes and commodity markets : new evidence
Athukorala, Wasantha; Robinson, Tim; Wilson, Clevo - 2010
A plethora of literature exists on irrigation development. However, only a few studies analyse the distributional issues associated with irrigation induced technological changes (IITC) in the context of commodity markets. Furthermore, these studies deal with only the theoretical arguments and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437912
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The Great Realignment: How the Changing Technology of Technological Change in Information Technology Affected the US and Japanese IT Industry, 1983-1999
Arora, Ashish; Branstetter, Lee; Drev, Matej - 2009
This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the performance of the United States and Japan, two of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441225
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Immigrant Workers and Technological Change in U.S. Agriculture: A Profit Maximization Approach of Induced Innovation
Napasintuwong, Orachos; Emerson, Robert D. - 2006
on farm mechanization. The rates and directions of biased technological change based on the induced innovation theory are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442506
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LABOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE IN THE KANSAS FARM SECTOR: A TRIPARTITE DECOMPOSITION USING THE DEA APPROACH
Mugera, Amin W.; Langemeier, Michael R. - 2008
The objective of this paper is to analyze sources of labor productivity growth in the Kansas farm sector over the period 1993-2006 for a sample of 668 farms. The nonparametric production frontier method is used to decompose labor productivity growth into three components: (1) technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443295
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FORECASTING ENERGY SUPPLY AND POLLUTION FROM THE OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
Managi, Shunsuke; Opaluch, James J.; Jin, Di; … - 2004
Sound energy and environmental policies require reliable forecasts of production and pollution, as well as supply response to policy actions. In this study, we describe a model for forecasting long-term production and pollution in the offshore oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444227
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A New Measure of the Producer Welfare Effects of Technological Change
Bullock, David S. - 2011
It is well recognized that the statistical reliability of the conventional method of estimating the effects of technological change on producer welfare is often quite poor. I present a method that enhances the statistical reliability of such estimates. I emphasize that when measuring the welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444347