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Technology, learning, and long run economic growth in leading and lagging regions
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014
We use a dynamic model to study the effects of technology and learning on the long run economic growth rates of a leading and a lagging region. New technologies are developed in the leading region but technological improvements in the lagging region are the result of learning from the leading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491966
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Societal Biases Reinforcement Through Machine Learning – A Credit Scoring Perspective
Hassani, Bertrand - 2020
Does machine learning and AI ensure that social biases thrive ? This paper aims to analyse this issue. Indeed, as algorithms are informed by data, if these are corrupted, from a social bias perspective, good machine learning algorithms would learn from the data provided and reverberate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831424
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Political referenda and investment : evidence from Scotland
Azqueta-Gavaldon, Andres - 2020
We present evidence that referenda have a significant, detrimental outcome on investment. Employing an unsupervised machine learning algorithm over the period 2008-2017, we construct three important uncertainty indices underlying reports in the Scottish news media: Scottish independence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212854
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Behavioral foundations of sustainability transitions
Gazheli, Ardjan; Antal, Miklós; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. … - 2012
individuals and organizations. This is somewhat surprising since an important problem which transition management needs to tackle … is inertia or resistance to change. Transition policy needs to account for the bounded rationality and social interaction … of agents so as to arrive at a more realistic view of the limits and opportunities for realizing a transition. System …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430808
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Technology, Learning, and Long Run Economic Growth in Leading and Lagging Regions
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2014
We use a dynamic model to study the effects of technology and learning on the long run economic growth rates of a leading and a lagging region. New technologies are developed in the leading region but technological improvements in the lagging region are the result of learning from the leading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058839
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Intermediation for technology diffusion and user innovation in a developing rural economy : a social learning perspective
Theodorakopoulos, Nicholas; Bennett, David J.; … - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 26 (2014) 7/8, pp. 645-662
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Young people, skills and cities
Peri, Giovanni - 2001
Young highly educated workers developed in the 70 s and 80 s a preference for working in larger cities. As a consequence highly educated young workers in 1990 were over-represented in cities, in spite of the lower wage premium they earned for working in crowded metropolitan areas if compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408390
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Young People, Skills and Cities
Peri, Giovanni - 2021
Young highly educated workers developed in the 70's and 80's a preference for working in larger cities. As a consequence highly educated young workers in 1990 were over-represented in cities, in spite of the lower wage premium they earned for working in crowded metropolitan areas if compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320717
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Quantifying the effect of labor market size on learning externalities
Peters, Jan Cornelius - 2017
We show for Germany that labor productivity as reflected in wage is, ceteris paribus, higher for workers who previously acquired work experience in rather urban labor markets with a large local workforce than in rather rural labor markets which are small in terms of regional employment. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741670
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Quantifying the effect of labor market size on learning externalities
Peters, Jan Cornelius - 2017
We show for Germany that labor productivity as reflected in wage is, ceteris paribus, higher for workers who previously acquired work experience in rather urban labor markets with a large local workforce than in rather rural labor markets which are small in terms of regional employment. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709753