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Effects of Economic Development in China on Skill-Biased Technical Change in the US
Chu, Angus; Cozzi, Guido; Furukawa, Yuichi - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 18 (2015) 2, pp. 227-242
by incorporating production offshoring into a North-South model of directed technical change. We find that intellectual … property rights (IPRs) and offshoring are different ways for the labor endowment of the South to affect the size of the market … for innovations in the North. Absent offshoring and lacking IPRs in the South - as in China in the early 1980s - an …
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Effect of international activity on firm performance : trade liberalization benefits better performing firms and contributes to economic growth
Wagner, Joachim - 2014
There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...
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Skill shortages, labor reallocation, and growth
Hetze, Pascal - 2006
This paper explores the relationship between growth and unemployment. Knowledge formation is the source of growth, which includes the two dimensions technologies and skills. Both are connected through a technology-skill complementarity which may have limiting effects on the reallocation of labor...
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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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ICT capital and service complementarities : the Italian evidence
Quatraro, Francesco (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates whether ICTs hardware and services play a complementary role in boosting economic growth. The main argument is that investments in ICTs fixed capital are a necessary but not sufficient condition leading to productivity gains, above all in late adopter countries. Their...
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The effect of human capital on output growth in ICT industries : evidence from OECD countries
Murphy, Gavin (contributor); Siedschlag, Iulia (contributor) - 2007
In this paper we analyse the effects of human capital in fostering output growth in ICT manufacturing and services using data from a sample of twenty OECD countries over the period 1980-2002. We focus on within country between industry differences and control for country and industry specific...
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Do R&D and ICT affect total factor productivity growth differently?
Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - 2016
We analyze the effect of ICT and R&D on total factor productivity (TFP) growth across different industries in Sweden. R&D alone is significantly associated with contemporaneous TFP growth, thus exhibiting spillover effects. Although there is no significant short-run association between ICT and...
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Does information and communication technologies sustain economic growth? : The underdeveloped and developing countries case
Erdil, Erkan (contributor); Türkcan, Burcu (contributor);  … - 2009
This paper tests the impact of ICT on economic growth for underdeveloped and developing countries by using a panel dataset for the period of 1995-2006. We first develop the theory between ICT and economic growth. We show that ICT-capital has a positive effect both on long-run and transitional...
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Is information and communication technology (ICT) the right strategy for growth in Mexico?
Caudillo Sanchez, Francisco (contributor) - 2006
Although empirical evidence available suggests that information and communication technologies (ICT) have positively contributed to important sectors of the Mexican economy, it is still unknown to which extent ICT have truly contributed to productivity among these sectors. The increasing...
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Lightning, IT Diffusion and Economic Growth Across US States
Andersen, Thomas Barnebeck - 2012
Empirically, a higher frequency of lightning strikes is associated with slower growth in labor productivity across the 48 contiguous US states after 1990; before 1990 there is no correlation between growth and lightning. Other climate variables (e.g., temperature, rainfall and tornadoes) do not...
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