Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

created. In a static version where capital is fixed and technology is exogenous, automation reduces employment and the labor …We examine the concerns that new technologies will render labor redundant in a framework in which tasks previously … performed by labor can be automated and new versions of existing tasks, in which labor has a comparative advantage, can be …

This paper examines the impact of unbalanced (skill-biased) technical change on the labor market and economic growth …. It argues that when the gap between the technology of skilled and unskilled workers increases, it becomes harder to … the long run, the economy converges to a steady state with a balanced growth of the technology of the two groups. The …

labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more … and measure the local adjustments produced by the immigrant flow. Workers and firms take advantage of the opportunities …

related to growth in production factors. Hence, there are opposing forces at work if labor as one factor is growing and the … one labor and one resource using sector and derives conditions for stable positive long run growth in per capita …

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as … whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms …. When goods are differentiated enough, adoption occurs later than it is socially optimal. -- technology adoption …

This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has … between productivity and exports, and exploiting heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant communities in the United …

Evolution of technology is a stepwise advancement of a complex system of artifact, driven by interaction with sub … society. This study explains evolution of technology with two different approaches: theories based on processes of competitive … substitution of a new technology for the old one and theories considering a multi-mode interaction between technologies, such as …