Technological Change
Outsourcing and Technological Change
... Although in our theoretical model the firm makes an all-or-nothing decision con- cerning the outsourcing of any given service, our data only report industry level spending on various services. We therefore use as our ...
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Financial equilibrium in the presence of technological change
... The global economy creates more and more money per unit of real output, whilst said output displays a decreasing capacity to compensate the depreciation of fixed assets, which allows guessing an increasing speed of ...
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Essays on the skill premium and the skill bias of technological change
... The results of chapter one of this thesis are very different compared to both Krusell and Ruiz Arranz at first sight, but this does not invalidate the motiva- tion and results of Ruiz-Arranz (2003). The production ...
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A model of power biased technological change
... The contribution of new technology to earnings inequality has most often been ex- plained in terms of skill-biased technological change (SBTC). An alternate hypothesis focuses on agency problems within the ...
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Effects of demographic factors on technological change and economic growth
... The endogenous technological change literature implies a scale effect of the population size on the per capita growth rate of the economy. Yet this is not supported by the evidence: As Young [1998] argues, ...
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Knowledge in pollution saving technological change
... of technological progress in pollution ...of technological progress advances at a constant rate, but they do not explore the role of learning, R&D and technical knowledge in that ...pollution-saving ...
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Industrial policy, collective action, and the direction of technological change
... of technological change under two ...capital-augmenting technological change, which is also supported by the distorted government only when institutions deliberately favor the investment goods ...
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Economic Development, Technological Change and Growth
... Economic Developmnet, Technological Change and Growth Attia, Sayed Moawad none... The concept of Development.[r] ...
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The role of product diversification in skill biased technological change
... The role of product diversification in skill-biased technological change Nam, Choong Hyun university of Warwick.[r] ...
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Implications of skill-biased technological change: International evidence
... labor-saving) technological change ...skill-biased technological change is the principal ...sector-biased technological change [Bound and Johnson 1992; Katz and Murphy 1992; ...
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The role of product diversification in skill biased technological change
... biased change unless the mark-up ra- tio rises continuously, which would seem ...continued technological change and capital ...skill-biased change has begun to slow down recently (Autor, Katz ...
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Understanding technological change in global finance through infrastructures
... approaching technological change through the lens of infrastructures invites IPE scholars to question how emergent technologies might change the form and extent of connections between different ...
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Skill biased technological change and the business cycle
... In this paper, we explored the implications of skill bias in technological change for business cycle fluctuations. We constructed a quarterly time series for the skill premium using micro-data from the ...
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Environmental tax reform and induced technological change
... final good related to pollution emissions is produced with energy services and labor under the constant-returns-to-scale technology. Energy services are manufactured by using a natural resource and a composite of ...
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Technological change, financial innovation, and diffusion in banking
... This chapter will describe how technological change has spurred financial innovations that have driven the aforementioned changes in commercial banking over the past 25 years. In this respect, our survey is ...
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Essays on efficiency and technological change in the banking sector.
... of technological change is superior to the translog production frontier that does not account for any technological change, but it is not significantly better than the Translog production ...
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Growth, Technological Change and Output Gap in Russia
... The empirical investigation will be based, partly, on the Growth Accounting approach. Growth accounting was pioneered by Abramovitz (1956) and Solow (1957) and aimed at explaining the determinants of growth worldwide, ...
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Emissions trading and technological change
... and technological change have already cropped up in the opening paragraphs, and will be used throughout this thesis, but how does one define them? A literature spanning the works of Joseph Schumpeter and ...
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Technological Change and Immigration Policy
... skill-biased technological change imply essentially different immigration ...skill-neutral change implies an immigrant skill distribution that is dominated by the native skill distribution; on the ...
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Population Ageing and Technological Change
... Abstract: This paper examines the economic costs of population ageing. It is argued that population ageing leads to lower rates of economic growth, which makes it more difficult to generate the revenue needed to ...
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