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Firm Size, Technical Change And Wages In The Pork Sector, 1990 -2005

Yu, Li; Hurley, Terrance M.; Kliebenstein, James; … - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2008

attention to the matching process by which workers are linked to farms of different size and technology use, and whether the … advanced hog farms, the positive relationships between wages and both farm size and technology adoption remain large and …

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A matrix to indicate the utility of technologies

Fox, Stephen - In: Construction Management and Economics 21 (2003) 2, pp. 187-196

The development and performance of buildings and building components can be improved through better use of technology … technologies to different types of buildings and building components. First, the purpose of the technology matrix (TM) is defined …

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ACCELERATE YOUR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT – AN ECCENTRIC BICIRCUALR MODEL & SOLUTIONS.

SUBRAMANIAM, DR. VSR. - EconWPA - 2004

Technology with Domestic Human Potential (Technical Infrastructure) & Economic Development is represented by Exogenous Circle …, EVEN THOUGH FOREIGN TO START WITH) 02. DOMESTIC HUMAN POTENTIAL TO MAN THE DOMESTIC TECHNOLOGY - ENDOGENOUS CIRCLE. (LATEST … TECHNOLOGY MODERATED TO SUIT LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS). 03. SYNCHRONISE EXOGENOUS AND ENDOGENOUS CIRCLES & OPTIMISE THEIR DIMENSIONS …

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Future Potential of Hybrid and Diesel Powertrains in the U.S. Light-Duty Vehicle Market

Greene, David L.; Duleep, K.G.; McManus, Walter - EconWPA - 2004

Diesel and hybrid technologies each have the potential to increase light-duty vehicle fuel economy by a third or more without loss of performance, yet these technologies have typically been excluded from technical assessments of fuel economy potential on the grounds that hybrids are too...

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Costly Technology Adoption and Capital Accumulation.

Khan, A.; Ravikumar, B. - Department of Economics, Tippie College of Business - 1997

We develop a model of costly technology adoption where the cost is irrecoverable and fixed. Households must decide when … to switch from an existing technology to a new, more productive technology. …

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Trade, Technology and Labour Markets: Empirical Controversies in the Light of the Jones Model

Pflüger, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD area since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" or "globalisation" and technological progress....

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ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

this expansion in technology adoption rates, penetration rates differ markedly between developed and developing countries …, telephone density, legal quality and banking sector development are associated with technology penetration rates. Overall, the … countries. Estimates from Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions reveal that the main factors responsible for low rates of technology …

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Do Home Computers Improve Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Current Population Surveys and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997

Beltran, Daniel O.; Das, Kuntal K.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. The role of home computers in the educational process, however, has drawn very little attention in the previous literature. We use panel data from the two main U.S. datasets that include recent information...

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The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change

Philipson, Tomas J.; Posner, Richard A. - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - 1999

This paper analyzes the forces contributing to the worldwide long-run rise in obesity and the role of public interventions in affecting its continued growth. The cause of a growth in obesity in a population must be that calorie consumption is outpacing the growth of physical activity. Yet in...

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The Growth of Obesity and Technological Change: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination

Lakdawalla, Darius; Philipson, Tomas - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - 2002

prices, and weight. Using individual-level data from 1976 to 1994, we find that technology-based reductions in food prices …

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