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Market Size or Acceleration Effects; Comparing Hy pothese s to Explain Skill Biased Technical Change
Sanders, Mark - 2005
Skill-biased technical change has occupied empirical economists for much of the 90s. However, the empirical literature has not progressed much beyond observing a positive correlation between technology indicators and demand shifts. Two hypotheses on the root causes of skill biases in technical...
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Global Talent Flows
Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2016
The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...
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Globalization, Wage Polarization, and the Unstable Great Ratio
Cozzi, Guido - 2014
has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the …
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Global Talent Flows
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William; Ozden, Caglar; … - 2021
The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315472
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Global talent flows
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2016
The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580579
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Data, measurement and initiatives for inclusive digitalization and future of work
Nofal, María B.; Coremberg, Ariel; Sartorio, Luca - 2018
As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected, new data sources and measurement tools are needed to complement existing valuable statistics and administrative data. This is...
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Global Talent Flows
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2017
The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965941
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Determinants of inter-country internet diffusion rates
Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Leiter, Daniel B. - 2008
This paper employs cross-sectional data from 100 countries to analyze the main determinants of inter-country Internet diffusion rates. We set up an empirical model based on strong theoretical foundations, in which we regress Internet usage on variables that capture social, economic and political...
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What effects could global value chain and digital infrastructure development policies have on poverty and inequality after COVID-19?
Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Cuesta, José; Kugler, Maurice; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-29
development (DID)-which can boost telework and virtual human capital accumulation. Reduction in poverty and inequality through … project their impact on poverty and inequality up to 2030. Our findings show limited impact of the three types of policy …) lower barriers to foreign direct investment (FDI). The impact of DID on inequality is also moot. There is however a modest …
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Past, present, and intended digitalization around the world : leading, catching up, forging ahead, and falling behind
Samsami, Mahsa; Schøtt, Thomas - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 68 (2022) 3, pp. 1-9
Businesses around the world are rapidly adopting digital technologies. Adoption, though, is not even, but it varies over time and differs from society to society, depending on resources in the ecosystem. This study addresses how past, present, and future digitalization is developing globally...
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