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Technological change, human capital structure, and multiple growth paths
Kim, Yong Jim; Lee, Jong-Wha - 2009
This paper presents a theoretical model to analyze the effects of technology change on growth rates of income and human capital in the uncertain environments of technology. The uncertainty comes from two sources; the possibility of a technology advance and the characteristics of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817262
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Technological Change, Human Capital Structure, and Multiple Growth Paths
Kim, Yong Jin; Lee, Jong-Wha - 2009
This paper presents a theoretical model to analyze the effects of technology change on growth rates of income and human capital in the uncertain environments of technology. The uncertainty comes from two sources; the possibility of a technology advance and the characteristics of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507250
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Occupational choice and the dynamics of human capital, inequality and growth
Dvorkin, Maximiliano A.; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2019
We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model with occupation mobility, human capital accumulation and endogenous assignment of workers to tasks to quantitatively assess the aggregate impact of automation and other task-biased technological innovations. We extend recent quantitative general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998090
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Firm-level human capital and innovation : evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017
include skilled human capital (number of highly educated workers), general manager’s education and tenure, and management team …'s education and age. We find that skilled human capital has a significant positive effect on firms' innovation, while the … role in firm innovation in metropolitan cities, while it is the General Manager's education that has a positive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615502
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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes
Simon, Lisa - 2019
This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using … terms of credibility, relevance, and expectedness by gender and education level. Females are particularly rewarded for IT … and language skills and males for maturity. Chapter 3 analyses the impact of beliefs about refugees' education levels on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011971651
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Home computer ownership and educational outcomes of adolescents in Greece
Djinovic, Vladana; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2022
In this paper we investigate whether human capital accumulation, during adolescence, depends on home investments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment. Using micro-level data, for children aged 17-18 years old, drawn from the Greek part of the European Union Statistics on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329788
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Dilution effects, population growth and economic growth under human capital accumulation and endogenous technological change
Bucci, Alberto; Eraydın, Levent; Müller, Moritz - 2018
This paper answers the following two questions: 1) In the data, can we find a dilution effect of population growth also on per-capita human capital investment? If yes, 2) how can we use this fact to explain theoretically the existence of a differential impact of population change on economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789620
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Ideology, Human Capital, and Growth
Iyigun, Murat; Mocan, Naci H.; Owen, Ann L. - 2001
education and knowledge and ideology play complementary roles in determining individuals' efficiency units of labor input. A … are likely to invest more in education and as a result experience faster technological progress and growth. Somewhat … high even in the long run. When there exists a feedback loop between education and ideology, a flawed ideology may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134820
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Computer Technology, Human Labor, and Long-Run Economic Growth
Elliott, Stuart W. - 1998
Over the coming century, computer technology is likely to become capable of reproducing a large portion of the tasks performed by human labor. This paper develops a model of the aggregate economic growth that results when work tasks are transferred from humans to physical capital. The model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062624
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Firm-level Human Capital and Innovation: Evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017
include skilled human capital (number of highly educated workers), general manager’s education and tenure, and management team …’s education and age. We find that skilled human capital has a significant positive effect on firms’ innovation, while the … role in firm innovation in metropolitan cities, while it is the General Manager’s education that has a positive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615925