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Changes in education, wage inequality and working hours over time
Davoine, Thomas; Mankart, Jochen - 2017
The US skill premium and college enrollment have increased substantially over the past few decades. In addition, while low-wage earners worked more than highwage earners in 1970, the opposite was true in 2000. We show that a parsimonious neoclassical model featuring skill-biased technical...
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Productivity slowdown, exhausted opportunities and the power of human ingenuity : Schumpeter meets Georgescu-Roegen
Pyka, Andreas; Bogner, Kristina; Urmetzer, Sophie - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 5 (2019) 3/39, pp. 1-17
recently developed concept of Dedicated Innovation Systems (DIS). We conclude that traditional macro-level indicators are not …
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Social capital as a factor of innovative development
Pylypenko, H. M.; Pylypenko, Yu. I.; Dubiei, Yu. V.; … - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 9 (2023) 3, pp. 1-9
innovations. The analysis of the achievements of economic science in the field of studying social capital and innovation revealed …, which have different potential in promoting innovation. On the basis of the methodological approach, in which … this basis, the nature of their interaction and role in the innovation process is shown. In order to quantify social …
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The influence of socio-cultural factors on knowledge-based innovation and the digital economy
Vlasov, Maksim; Polbitsyn, Sergey N.; Olumekor, Michael; … - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 8 (2022) 4, pp. 1-13
The knowledge economy, fostered by knowledge-based innovation, has been linked to entrepreneurial and economic success …. We investigated the impact of socio-cultural factors on knowledge-based innovation, then we also examined whether … digitalization impacted knowledge-based innovation, regardless of the influence of socio-cultural factors. Using official data from …
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The impact of digital technologies on worker tasks : do labor policies matter?
Corseuil, Carlos H. L.; Poole, Jennifer P.; Almeida, Rita - 2018
Between 1999 and 2006, Brazilian cities experienced strong growth in the provision of internet services, driven in part by the privatization of the telecommunications industry. A main concern of policymakers is that digital technology replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled...
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Technological change and skill obsolescence : the case of German apprenticeship training
Blechinger, Doris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1996
The paper analyses the applicability of vocational training and the earnings of apprentices using survey data from West Germany in 1979, 1985/86 and 1991/92. The applicability has decreased remarkably between 1979 and 1991/92. The objective of the analysis is a survey-data-based assessment of...
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De-routinization in the fourth industrial revolution : firm-level evidence
Arntz, Melanie; Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, … - 2024
This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find...
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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technology adopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202834
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Technological clusters in Brazilian agriculture : production and challenges
Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2017
This study aims to analyze the evolution of Brazilian agricultural production from the 1960s to now. We will summarize some of the main findings from the historical view of Brazilian agriculture development. The arguments should rest here on how technical change and the national system of...
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