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Knowledge, Capabilities and Human Capital Formation in Economic Growth
David, Paul A - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2000
This monograph, which has been prepared as a Research Report to the New Zealand (New Zealand) Treasury, undertakes three main tasks: (1) describing the various forms of tangible and intangible human capital, their relationship to "capabilities" affecting human well-being, and the channels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005176925
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Gross earning inequalities in OECD countries and major non-member economies : determinants and future scenarios
Braconier, Henrik; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - 2014
as a common cross-country time trend and the level of multi factor productivity – has been the key driver in increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010465013
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Determinants of growth and convergence in a growing economy with heterogeneous entrepreneurs
Dohse, Dirk (contributor); Ott, Ingrid (contributor) - 2008
We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and convergence. Our work is closely related to the model by Acemoglu et al. (2006) but extends their analysis in some important respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782309
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Technology and Growth in a Fixed Physical World
Jefferson, Gary H. - 2018
In the conventional neoclassical growth model, technical change is generally characterized as “purely labor-augmenting,” a restriction that limits modern civilization to super-humans living in the Stone Age. As a novel and radical departure from conventional growth theory, the model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914009
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Digitalisation and productivity: A report by the ESCB expert group on productivity, innovation and technological change
Bijnens, Gert; Botelho, Vasco; Falck, Elisabeth; … - 2024
The productivity-enhancing effects of digitalisation have generated increased interest in the promotion of digital … technologies. This report provides different estimations for euro area countries of the impact of digital uptake on productivity at … firm level, showing that the adoption of digital technologies could lead to an increase in firms' productivity in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565155
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The Contribution of ICTs to Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s
Rao, Someshwar; Tang, Jianmin - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 3-18
The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … development. A key issue is whether this slower productivity growth is broadly-based, which would imply a societal … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518950
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New education models for the workforce of the future
Pastore, Francesco - 2018
This paper addresses the directions to follow when designing new educational systems and school-to-work transition regimes to adhere to the needs of Industry 4.0. Although a high level of general education will be important for its training content to develop adaptability, it is not the only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927766
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New education models for the future of work force
Pastore, Francesco - 2018
This paper addresses the directions to follow when designing new educational systems and school-lowork transition regimes to adhere to the needs of Industry 4. 0. Although a high level of general education will be important for its training content to develop adaptability, it is not the only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129094
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Die Zukunft der Arbeit und der Wandel der Arbeitswelt
Eichhorst, Werner; Buhlmann, Florian - 2015
and the development of flexible work organization models that can reconcile productivity and innovation with individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348191
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Die Zukunft der Arbeit und der Wandel der Arbeitswelt
Eichhorst, Werner; Buhlmann, Florian - 2015
and the development of flexible work organization models that can reconcile productivity and innovation with individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486327