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Technological Change, Human Capital Structure, and Multiple Growth Paths

Kim, Yong Jin; Lee, Jong-Wha - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2009

This paper presents a theoretical model to analyze the effects of technology change on growth rates of income and human capital in the uncertain environments of technology. The uncertainty comes from two sources; the possibility of a technology advance and the characteristics of new...

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Editor's Overview

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 1-2

The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the...

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Reorganization of Firms and Labour Market Inequality

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper explores the implications of the ongoing reorganization of firms for inequality in the labour market. We show how recent technological advances in physical and human capital can lead to the breakdown of occupational barriers, creating demands for new combinations of skills, and...

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The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview

Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace "tasks" between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries and fostered employment polarization – that is, rising employment in the...

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Human Capital Accumulation and Wage Inequality with Scale-Independent North-South Technological Diffusion

Afonso, Oscar; AGUIAR, Alvaro - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2004

This paper analyzes the mechanisms, other than market size, through which international trade of intermediate goods incorporating state-of-the-art technological knowledge affects accumulation of human capital and wage inequality in the North and South. Under North-South technological diffusion,...

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What Drives the Skill Premium: Technological Change or Demographic Variation?

He, Hui - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2009

This paper quantitatively examines the effects of two exogenous driving forces, investment-specific technological change (ISTC) and the demographic change known as “the baby boom and the baby bust,” on the evolution of the skill premium in the postwar U.S. economy. I develop an overlapping...

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Promoting return and circular migration of the highly skilled

Hercog, Metka; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

Migration of skilled workers from developing countries has increased substantially in recent years. Traditionally, such patterns raised fears on the ground of the associated 'brain drain' as human capital formation is considered to be of central importance to the development and reduction of...

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Making People Employable: Reforming Secondary Education in Pakistan

Khan, Shaukat Hameed - In: The Pakistan Development Review 48 (2009) 4, pp. 603-617

Pakistan’s education system has been the focus of various reforms every few years, and a new exercise has been … initiated recently through the National Education Policy, 2009. While the problems are generally well documented and stress on … universal primary education fully justified, the role of economic relevance of education and training as a factor discouraging …

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Promoting return and circular migration of the highly skilled

Hercog, Metka; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

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Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia

Hornung, Erik - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2011

This paper analyzes long-term effects of skilled-worker immigration on productivityfor the Huguenots migration to Prussia. We combine Huguenot immigration lists from1700 with Prussian firm-level data on the value of inputs and outputs in 1802 in aunique data base. In 1685, religious persecution...

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