This study focuses on the sources and evolution of economic growth of the Taiwanese economy over the period 1966-1996.

We describe and analyse the changes in the occupational structure of french manufacturing firms between 1984 and 1985. We develop and test a labor demand model that shows the role played by technological change.

In this paper, the production and consumption behaviour of food-secure and food-insecure farm households are studied in the presence of technological change. The technological change on the whole tends to imprve the food security status of the households. Research based technology (wheat variety...

Using matched worker/plant level data for Norway, trade and technology explanations for the change in skill composition are assessed using direct evidence on the job creation and destruction for workers with high, medium and low education level. In order to disentangle the supply and demand...

Search engines hold the key to helping consumers access the wealth of information on the web. In this paper, I examine the evolution of and competition in the internet search engine market. I find that while early entrants (Yahoo, Lycos, Excite, Infoseek, and Altavista) still have an advantage,...

The European Renewables Directive requires Member States to deliver on average 20% of their final energy consumption by 2020 using renewable energy sources. To deliver this target, Member States have to adjust planning procedures, evaluate energy market design, provide grid and supply...

In this paper, we develop an agent-based model of a market game in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the UK government’s 2008-2010 policy on promoting smart metering. We also consider possible supplementary strategies. With the model, we test the effectiveness of four possible strategy...

Bu çalışmada Konsan A.Ş.’nin kâğıt departmanındaki üretim süreçlerinin haritalanmasında IDEF0(Integration Definition for Function Modeling: Fonksiyon Modelleme İçin Bütünleşik Tanım) tekniği kullanılmıştır. IDEF0 faaliyete dayalı modelleme tekniğidir. IDEF0 grafik ve...

We develop a model of child labour where poverty and inequality combine to determine policy response to child labour. If there are strategic complementarities between parents’ decisions to educate their children and .firms’ technology choice, multiple school-enrollment equilibria arise. Only...

Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on the local environment. An important indication of the potential contribution of foreign investors...