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Is information and communication technology (ICT) the right strategy for growth in Mexico?

Caudillo Sanchez, Francisco - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2006

Although empirical evidence available suggests that information and communication technologies (ICT) have positively contributed to important sectors of the Mexican economy, it is still unknown to which extent ICT have truly contributed to productivity among these sectors. The increasing...

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Openness and Technological Innovation in East Asia: Have They Increased the Demand for Skills?

Almeida, Rita K. - In: Asia-Pacific Development Journal 17 (2010) 1, pp. 63-95

This paper examines whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. We explore a unique firm level data set across eight countries in the East Asia and Pacific region. Our results strongly support the idea...

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Intra-industry Trade Exposure, Fragmentation, and Labor Adjustment

Dluhosch, Barbara - In: Journal of Economic Integration 21 (2006), pp. 318-339

Over the last two decades, labor market prospects of the low skilled in OECDcountries deteriorated sharply. Developments like these have been frequently traced back to low-cost competition from abroad. Yet, the Heckscher-Ohlin hypothesis is hard to reconcile with the fact that OECD-trade is for...

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Less Income Inequality and More Growth – Are They Compatible? Part 2. The Distribution of Labour Income

Koske, Isabell; Fournier, Jean-Marc; Wanner, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

income. Technological change and globalisation play at least some role in driving inequality patterns, but structural policy … can also have an important influence on inequality outcomes, in particular through education and labour market policies … inequality and raising economic growth. It concludes that many policies yield a double dividend in the sense that they contribute …

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Government Spending Composition, Technical Change, and Wage Inequality

Cozzi, Guido; Impullitti, Giammario - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 8 (2010) 6, pp. 1325-1358

hit the U.S. economy in the late 1970s and in the 1980s, as well as the simultaneous increase in inequality and in … increase in wage inequality in the period 1976-1991. (JEL: E62, J31, O33, O41) (c) 2010 by the European Economic Association. …

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The Increase in Income Cyclicality of High-Income Households and its Relation to the Rise in Top Income Shares

Parker, Jonathan A.; Vissing-Jorgensen, Annette - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We document a large increase in the cyclicality of the incomes of high-income households, coinciding with the rise in their share of aggregate income. In the U.S., since top income shares began to rise rapidly in the early 1980s, incomes of those in the top 1 percent of the income distribution...

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Multi-tasking and the Returns to Experience

Chaudhury, Parama - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

In this paper, I study how an increase in the use of new work practices that involve multi-tasking has affected the returns to experience. If each task in a job has a concave learning curve, then increasing the number of tasks may increase the returns to experience. Using the Panel Study of...

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The Hidden Increase in Wage Inequality: Skill-biased and Ability-biased Technological Change

Michaelsen, Maren M. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011

This study provides strong evidence for an increase in wage inequality induced by skillbiased technological change in …

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Working Paper 15-02 - Opleiding en kwalificaties, arbeidsmarkt en ICT: de rol van onderwijs en training

Dekkers, Gijs - Federal Planning Bureau, Government of Belgium - 2002

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Do Male-Female Wage Differentials Reflect Differences in the Return to Skill? Cross-City Evidence From 1980-2000

Beaudry, Paul; Lewis, Ethan G. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Over the 1980s and 1990s the wage differentials between men and women (with similar observable characteristics) declined significantly. At the same time, the returns to education increased. It has been suggested that these two trends may reflect a common change in the relative price of a skill...

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