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Die Dissertation befasst sich mit Einkommenszyklen offener Volkswirtschaften. Im Grundmodell werden Einkommensunterschiede der Länder durch verschiedene Lernexternalitäten ausgelöst. Arbeitsteilung im internationalen Handel verfestigt die Ungleichentwicklung. Das Aufkommen neuer Technologien...
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-business, information business, knowledge management, e-learning and quality management, information technology and computer science …
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participants to do business through information and communication technology (ICT) tools and systems is dependent on the innovation … of the user, not only the technology itself – i.e. the successful implementation of ICT requires careful consideration to …
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Traditional economic wisdom claims that - while global economic integration is beneficial for economic performance - a country's trade specialization pattern has no impact on its economic performance. In this paper, we seek to cast doubt on this aspect of mainstream economics using a very...
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Purpose – This paper aims to compare and contrast the career experiences and development needs of British and Australian quality managers. Design/methodology/approach – The results of a postal survey of the careers of British quality managers are compared with Australian quality managers...
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This paper constructs a stylized model of firm output and emissions that accounts for the two externalities that characterize environmental markets when technological change is endogenous. The first externality concerns emissions, the external damages of which are not accounted for by the firm,...
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We build up from the plant level an “aggregate(d)” Solow residual by estimating every U.S. manufacturing plant's contribution to the change in aggregate final demand between 1976 and 1996. Our framework uses the Petrin and Levinsohn (2010) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which...
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reported by plant managers, and the use of flexible technologies and work organization practices. Technology use is most …
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relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) we … employ a Solow-type growth accounting method to decompose output growth into input and TFP growth. For technology capital we … countries. We then correlate technology capital levels with long-term growth rates in agricultural TFP. Our findings show that …
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