across countries. This thesis constructs a dynamic general equilibrium model in which technology adoption is costly and … technology adoption process depending on productivity differences between the technologies. These are appropriately labeled as …‟ decision to switch technology which leads to a disparity in incomes across households in the technology adoption process. Since …

technological capabilities or not. I predict and find that in low complementarity contexts, as technology advances, customer demand … logistic regression models, I find that as technology in an industry advances, technological capabilities become weaker drivers …

sector, in order to modernize their economy, maintain the competitiveness of British high-technology industries, and … methodologies from the history of technology, institutional history, and labor history, as well as gender analysis, this … dissertation shows that despite the government's commitment to both high technology usage and labor meritocracy, competing claims …

capital, labour, energy, materials, copper ore-grade and time (K, L, E, M, g, t), with time representing technology change … to mine and concentrate copper in the US is assumed to be due to technology improvement. The economic model, which is … reduction in energy required flowing from technology improvements is developed. The energy required to mine and concentrate …

on the earnings cost of displacement by distinguishing the earnings losses between high technology (hi-tech) displaced …