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This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in … separately identify the impacts of recent changes in trade and technology on U.S. regional economies. …
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Gross Domestic Product (GDP), whereas little attention has actually been paid to investigate the other measurement which … current counterargument for using the GDP as the goal of economic development, this paper investigates a survey data in … Indonesia, observing the relationships between the experience to technology (the length of mobile phone ownership) and …
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In the trade-technology-wage debate, the effects of the various forms of technical progress on relative factor prices …
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Building on the canonical model of skill-biased technical change to incorporate differential effects of technology and … subsequent adoption of computer and information technology and larger decline in routine occupations. Exposure to global imports … smaller as compared to technology. However, when looking at the direction of displacement of routine-workers, regions with …
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This paper provides an introduction to the field of evolutionary economics with emphasis on the evolutionary theory of household behavior. It shows that the goal of evolutionary economics is to improve upon neoclassical economics by incorporating more realistic and empirically grounded...
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This paper analyses the determinants of spatial distribution of foreign technological activity across 96 German regions (1996-2009). We identify foreign inventive activity by applying the 'cross-border-ownership concept' to transnational patent applications. The descriptive analysis shows that...
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income trap as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese …Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the middle …
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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and embodied technological change (ETC). We use a novel panel dataset covering 265 innovative Italian firms over the period 1998-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect...
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In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development. Despite failing to industrialize in the past, there may be a new window of opportunity. This is due to the convergence of what has been called 'brilliant' new technologies associated...
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