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Firm-level upgrading in developing countries

Verhoogen, Eric - 2021

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....

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Technical progress and structural change : a long-term view

Nuvolari, Alessandro; Russo, Emanuele - 2019

productivity gains and demand growth. In this paper we study the interactions between structural change and technological progress … linking structural transformations and sector-specific technological opportunities to aggregate productivity growth. In the … final part we present productivity decompositions using a sectoral innovation taxonomy to study the contribution of …

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Human capital and macroeconomic growth : Austria and Germany 1960-1997; an update

Marin, Dalia; Koman, Reinhard - 2005

In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) argue that the evidence on the international disparity in levels of per capita income and rates of growth is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...

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The American Frontier : Technology versus Immigration

Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2008

main driving forces were productivity growth and the declining cost of transportation. International immigration played a …

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Notes on factor price equality and biased technical change in a two-cone trade model

Becker, Daniel Thomas; Gundlach, Erich - 2006

We reconsider the effects of long-run economic growth on relative factor prices across cones of specialization. We model economic growth as exogenous technical change. Allowing for capital biased technical change with a sector bias and for endogenous commodity prices, we find that economic...

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Technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development

Audretsch, David B.; Sanders, Mark - 2009

Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven...

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Varieties of systems of innovation : a survey of their evolution in growth theory and economic geography

Christ, Julian P. - 2007

The systems of innovation (SI) approach has been established and extended during the last two decades. Although elementary goals and progress have been reached through seminal contributions by Freeman (1987), Lundvall (1992) or Nelson (1993), in designing a generic approach, displaying the...

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Structural transformation, biased technological change, and employment in Vietnam

Abbott, Philip Chase; Tarp, Finn; Wu, Ce - 2015

Employment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means GDP per capita is rising. Vietnamese policymakers, however, are concerned that ongoing structural transformation is creating too few jobs. We use data for seven aggregated sectors...

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Human capital and macroeconomic growth : Austria and Germany 1960 - 1997 ; an update

Koman, Reinhard; Marin, Dalia - 1999

. -- economic growth; total factor productivity ; human capital ; technical change ; growth accounting …

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Accounting for breakout in Britain : the industrial revolution through a Malthusian lens

Tepper, Alexander; Borowiecki, Karol Jan - 2013

This paper develops a simple dynamic model to examine the breakout from a Malthusian economy to a modern growth regime. It identifies several factors that determine the fastest rate at which the population can grow without engendering declining living standards; this is termed maximum...

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