Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 8,386
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650247
Cover Image
Foreign Direct Investment, Technological Capabilities and Performance in the Chinese Pharmaceutical Industry
White, Steven; Yoshihara, Hideki; Liu, Xielin - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 1997
Does a firm engage in a joint venture with a technologically advanced foreign partner to complement or substitute investments in its own technological capabilities? We address this question in a comparative study of 222 Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturers and Sino-foreign joint ventures. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784028
Cover Image
Share to scare : technology sharing in the absence of intellectual property rights
Jansen, Jos - 2009
effect determines the technology-sharing incentives. In equilibrium at most one firm shares some of its technologies. For … similar technology distributions, there exists an equilibrium in which nobody shares. If the technology distributions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905806
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542204
Cover Image
Destruction or polarization: Estimating the impact of technology on jobs in Indian manufacturing
Vashisht, Pankaj - 2017
Indian manufacturers have invested significantly in technology upgradations since the economy opened up to foreign … trade and technology in the mid-1980s. In this paper, we examine the impact of technology on employment and skill demand … required labour per unit of output, technology has not reduced the aggregate employment in the Indian manufacturing sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807873
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286928
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009355741
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014557733
Cover Image
Productivity Trends in the Construction Sector in Canada: A Case of Lagging Technical Progress
Standards, Centre for the Study of Living - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2001
Both labour and total factor productivity growth in the total and residential construction sectors in Canada have been negative over the past two decades. This report provides a detailed examination of output, employment, and productivity trends in the construction sector in Canada and by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481834
Cover Image
Technology and Human Development
Ranis, Gustav - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371091