This paper develops and analyses a dynamic model, which combines both the adoption and the industry evolution theories. We model the decision of adoption, learning entry and exit of firms. These decisions depend on the interaction of technology characteristics (effectiveness, machinery and...

The decline in the unskilled share of French employment is chiefly due to the slackness of domestic demand for those industries with the highest proportion of unskilled workers. The spread of computers has not been particularly conducive to substitution between skilled and unskilled labor. We...

This paper studies the link between productivity, innovation and research at the firm level. We introduce three new features: (i) A structural model that explains productivity by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment; (ii) New data on French manufacturing firms,...

We study global adoption processes where the units of observation are countries which sequentially adopt a particular technology. Our goal is to provide a better understanding of how exogenous and endogenous country characteristics affect this diffusion process. We develop a general model of...

Empirical evidence suggests that there are important spillovers as-sociated with the operations of multinational enterprises. Spillovers may occur when less advanced, local firms learn from their more ad-vanced, foreign competitors. But less advanced firms may also actively seek knowledge by...

The paper examines the co-evolution of different dimensions of information systems for a sample of fast-growing small firms. The investigation uses primary source longitudinal empirical evidence. The data are taken from a large database on the lifecycle experience of one-hundred-and-fifty new...

Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...

This paper analyzes a three-stage game where two firms choose (i) their respective technology, by deciding on a level of R&D, (ii) whether this technology is to be used in a domestic or in a local plant and (iii) the quantity produced and sold on the market. If technology transfer costs are...

The role of education, technological diffusion and trade is investigated for 11 MENA countries for 1980-1992, using panel data techniques. Technological diffusion is measured by R&D activities in each country?s major trading partners and that country?s import propensity from each partner....

The discussion paper is an analysis into the effects of integration of Central East European (CEE) economies into the World market in general and the economic region on the European Union (EU) in particular.