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Skill-biased technological change, training, and the college wage premium: A quantitative analysis
Palmer, Thomas - 2024
This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap in training participation between high- and low-skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635563
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Skill-biased technological change, training, and the college wage premium : a quantitative analysis
Palmer, Thomas - 2024
This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap in training participation between high- and low-skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635196
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The Roots of the New Economy: An Institutional Perspective
Petit, Pascal - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 39-54
The factors behind the emergence of the New Economy are still poorly understood. In this article, Pascal Petit from CEPREMAP and CNRS in France provides an institutional perspective on the developmental phases or roots of this New Economy. He analyzes the structural, institutional and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005157594
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Understanding Productivity and Income Differentials Among OECD Countries: A Survey
Ark, Bart van - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650205
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The dynamics of skills: Technology and business cycles
Cirillo, Valeria; Pianta, Mario; Nascia, Leopoldo - 2015
except managers experience job losses that are mainly driven by the introduction of process innovation. In services, a … hold. During the downswing most established links break down; in particular, product innovation loses its positive impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011564738
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Measuring process innovation outputs and understanding their implications for firms and workers: Evidence from Pakistan.
Wadho, Waqar; Chaudhry, Azam - 2024
analyzed five different measures of process innovation output: cost reductions, defect rate reductions, reductions in … of innovative capabilities, level of competition, and availability of market sources of knowledge are important inducers … of process innovation and that smaller firms are more likely to introduce new processes and are better able to transform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542204
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The dynamics of skills : technology and business cycles
Cirillo, Valeria; Pianta, Mario; Nascia, Leopoldo - 2015
except managers experience job losses that are mainly driven by the introduction of process innovation. In services, a … hold. During the downswing most established links break down; in particular, product innovation loses its positive impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390045
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Measuring process innovation outputs and understanding their implications for firms and workers : evidence from Pakistan
Wadho, Waqar; Chaudhry, Azam - 2024
analyzed five different measures of process innovation output: cost reductions, defect rate reductions, reductions in … of innovative capabilities, level of competition, and availability of market sources of knowledge are important inducers … of process innovation and that smaller firms are more likely to introduce new processes and are better able to transform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014557733
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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
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The Importance of Skills for Innovation and Productivity
Rao, Someshwar; Tang, Jianmin; Wang, Weimin - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 15-26
detailed examination of the dynamics of innovation and determinants of productivity at the firm and industry level in Canadian …, product market competition, and government support for R&D, training, and technical assistance are the drivers of innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650236