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Technology and human development
Ranis, Gustav - 2011
Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in turn, is necessary to generate …. Secondly, the paper tries to investigate what affects technology change, as represented by TFP. We examine the influence of … openness, FDI, patents and R&D in a 22 country sample and also contrast Asian and Latin American experience. -- Technology …
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Measuring process innovation outputs and understanding their implications for firms and workers : evidence from Pakistan
Wadho, Waqar; Chaudhry, Azam - 2024
New processes significantly affect firms and workers; however, due to a lack of quantitative indicators, our understanding of the measures, determinants, and impacts of new processes remains limited. Drawing on unique data from Pakistan, we analyzed five different measures of process innovation...
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The future of work : how G20 countries can leverage digital-industrial innovations into stronger high-quality jobs growth
Annunziata, Marco; Bourgeois, Hendrik - 2018
A new wave of innovation is beginning to disrupt industry on a global scale. It constitutes a tremendous opportunity for faster productivity growth, but also a potential disruption to a number of economic sectors and to job markets. Academic research and the public debate have focused mostly on...
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The future of work : how G20 countries can leverage digital-industrial innovations into stronger high-quality jobs growth
Annunziata, Marco; Bourgeois, Hendrik - 2018
The wave of digital-industrial innovation which begins to disrupt vast sectors of the global economy has fueled fear of a potential adverse impact on jobs and wages. This paper argues that digitalindustrial innovations make human capital more important than ever and the focus needs to shift to...
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Labor heterogeneity and the risk of expropriation in less developed countries
Meulen, Philipp an de - 2011
Following the notion of skill-biased FDI flows from developed to less developed regions, high-skilled workers are likely to benefit from FDI to a larger extent. They earn a productivity advantage that potentially transfers into a skilled wage premium. This gives rise to distributional conflict...
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A Model on Knowledge and Endogenous Growth
Chen, Derek H.C; Kee, Hiau Looi - 2015
sector, our model incorporates two key aspects of knowledge: technology and human capital. Steady-state equilibrium …
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The dynamics of skills : technology and business cycles
Cirillo, Valeria; Pianta, Mario; Nascia, Leopoldo - 2015
This article investigates the role of technology, education and wages in shaping the skill structure of employment …
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When workers' skills become unbundled : some empirical consequences for sorting and wages
Nordström Skans, Oskar; Choné, Philippe; Kramarz, Francis - 2022
This empirical paper analyzes labor market sorting across establishments using Swedish register data on cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. We draw on the theoretical foundations of Chone' and Kramarz (2021), in which workers are endowed with sets of multidimensional skills that need to be...
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Education, skill training, and lifelong learning in the era of technological revolution
Kim, Jinyoung; Park, Cyn-Young - 2020
include strong cognitive skills, basic information and communication technology, and analytical skills, as well as a range of … paper reviews the recent studies on human capital and skill formation in the era of rapid technological progress. Findings …
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New evidence on the effect of technology on employment and skill demand
Hirvonen, Johannes; Stenhammar, Aapo; Tuhkuri, Joonas - 2022
research design focuses on a technology subsidy program in Finland that induced sharp increases in technology investment in …
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