This chapter reviews recent advances in the task model and shows how this framework can be put to work to understand the major labor market trends of the last several decades. Production in each industry necessitates the completion of a range of tasks, which can be allocated to workers of...

Dieses aktuelle Lehrbuch der Volkswirtschaftslehre, das mit vielen aktuellen Fallstudien punktet und Studierende nicht nur in die klassischen Theorien der Marktmechanismen einführt, sondern auch mit neuen Konzepten und Ansätzen, wie z.B. der Spieltheorie, vertraut macht, darf in keinem gut...

While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of innovation and technological...

Considering the examples of Australia and the Pacific Rim, Growth and Productivity in East Asia offers a contemporary explanation for national productivity that measures contributions not only from capital and labor, but also from economic activities and relevant changes in policy, education,...