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Assessment of industrial performance and the relationship between skill, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan
Nour, Samia - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan. Our findings are consistent with the stylized facts in the new … the positive complementary relationships between technology, skill and upskilling. Different from the Sudanese literature … skill indicators; between skill, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators and industrial performance indicators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712082
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Assessment of industrial performance and the relationship between skill, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan
Nour, Samia - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators in Sudan. Our findings are consistent with the stylized facts in the new … the positive complementary relationships between technology, skill and upskilling. Different from the Sudanese literature … skill indicators; between skill, upskilling, technology and input-output indicators and industrial performance indicators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195547
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Multinationals Endogenous Growth and Technological Spillovers: Theory and Evidence.
Baldwin, R.E.; Braconier, H.; Forslid, R. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
FDI has received surprisingly little attention in theoretical and empirical work on openness and growth. This paper presents a theoretical growth model where MNCs directly affect the endogenous growth rate via technological spillovers. This is novel since other endogenous growth models with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780388
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398011
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401020
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Demographic change and R&D-based economic growth : reconciling theory and evidence
Prettner, Klaus; Trimborn, Timo - 2012
In recent decades, most industrialized countries experienced declining population growth rates caused by declining fertility and associated with rising life expectancy. We analyze the effect of continuing demographic change on medium- and long-run economic growth by setting forth an R&D-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615301
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Demographic Change and R&D-Based Economic Growth : Reconciling Theory and Evidence
Trimborn, Timo - 2012
In recent decades, most industrialized countries experienced declining population growth rates caused by declining fertility and associated with rising life expectancy. We analyze the effect of continuing demographic change on medium- and long-run economic growth by setting forth an R&D-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101165
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Diffusion of General Purpose Technologies.
Helpman, E.; Trajtenberg, M. - Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University - 1996
The present paper deals with the diffusion of the General Purpose Technologies (GPT) over heterogeneous finanl-good sectors. We show that the gradual adoption of the GPT by each user sector generates a sequence of two-phased cycles, culminating in a "second wave" after all sectors adopt,they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005646866
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Technology and human development
Ranis, Gustav - 2011
Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in turn, is necessary to generate …. Secondly, the paper tries to investigate what affects technology change, as represented by TFP. We examine the influence of … openness, FDI, patents and R&D in a 22 country sample and also contrast Asian and Latin American experience. -- Technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009355741
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Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Development
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Walton, Michael - 2006
Just as equality of opportunity becomes an increasingly prominent concept in normative economics, the authors argue that it is also a relevant concept for positive models of the links between distribution and aggregate efficiency. Persuasive microeconomic evidence suggests that inequalities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060088