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Information technology and the knowledge elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...

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The ICT revolution : opportunities and risks for the Mezzogiorno

Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Pinelli, Dino - 2003

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Is growth an information technology story in Europe too?

Daveri, Francesco - 2000

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Tickets to the global market : first US patent awards and Chinese firm exports

Gong, Kaiji; Li, Yao; Manova, Kalina; Sun, Stephen Teng - 2023

We investigate how international patent activity enables firms from emerging economies to thrive in the global marketplace. We match Chinese customs data to US patent records, and leverage the quasi-random assignment of USPTO patent examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on...

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Qualifikationsanforderungen und Arbeitsformen in der Neuen Ökonomie

Christensen, Björn - 2001

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Works councils, training activities and innovation : a study of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - 2014

Building on the notion of general and specific human capital proposed by Becker (1962), the paper highlights the … establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … training rather than in firm-specific technical training of employees. In addition, the paper finds strong support for using …

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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …

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The effect of (mostly unskilled) immigration on the innovation of Italian regions

Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Chiara - 2014

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation during 2003-2008. Using instrumental variables estimation (based on immigrants' enclaves), we find that the overall stock of immigrants did not have any effect on innovation....

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Why entrepreneurs choose risky R&D projects : but still not risky enough

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2012

Entrepreneurs face higher commercialization costs than incumbents. We show that this implies that entrepreneurs will choose more risky projects than incumbents, aiming to reduce their high expected marginal commercialization cost. However, entrepreneurs may select too safe projects from a social...

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Endogenously increasing uncertainties and governance

Kovács, Olivér - 2014

This contribution argues that uncertainty is integrated into the modern economic systems; however its autochthonously increasing feature is puzzling and should be addressed in a more dedicated way. Behind the curtain of increasing uncertainty, we purport to demonstrate that at least the...

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