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Introducing Academic Skills in Know-how-based Firms Innovative Potential or Non-complementarity?

Nielsen, René N. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007

skilled graduates in small, know-how-based firms can be instrumental in spurring innovation and upgrading changes in the firms … qualifications that can contribute positively. Graduates with other academic qualifications also hold potential for innovation and …

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The ‘advancedness’ of knowledge in pollution-saving technological change with a qualitative application to SO2 cap and trade

Grover, David - In: Ecological Economics 89 (2013) C, pp. 123-134

This paper investigates the extent to which ‘advanced’ knowledge and technology played a role in the SO2 compliance … knowledge and technology dedicated to pollution abatement played a minor role in that process while relatively unadvanced forms … of knowledge and technology played the main role. New qualitative evidence in this somewhat well-known case is considered …

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Economic emergence: An evolutionary economic perspective

Foster, John; Metcalfe, J. Stan - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82 (2012) 2, pp. 420-432

to states of uncertainty be explicitly dealt with. We argue that ‘knowledge,’ because of the existence of uncertainty is … ‘energy gradients’ and ‘knowledge gradients’ as essential concepts in understanding economic emergence and resultant economic …

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The Two Sector Model of Learning-By Doing and Productivity Differences

Dinç, Tuna - In: Panoeconomicus 59 (2012) 5, pp. 583-598

This paper proposes that even when all countries have access to common technology frontier and can use the technologies which are fully appropriate to their needs, there will still be productivity differences across countries depending on their relative skill endowments. To illustrate this view,...

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Skill demand and the comparative advantage of age: Jobs tasks and earnings from the 1980s to the 2000s in Germany

Gordo, Laura Romeu; Skirbekk, Vegard - In: Labour Economics 22 (2013) C, pp. 61-69

We study the impact of rapid technological change on age and cohort variation in type of work and wages among German men for the 1986–2006 period. Using a task-based approach, we analyze the consequences that technological progress had on changes in the distribution of tasks performed by the...

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THE DYNAMICS OF TASK-BIASED TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE :THE CASE OF OCCUPATIONS

Rycx, Francois; Kampelmann, Stephan - In: Brussels Economic Review 56 (2013) 2, pp. 113-142

This article uses detailed German household panel data to address important unresolved issuesrelated to task-biased technological change. Implementing a task-based model of occupationalemployment and earnings, results show that the task composition of occupations in 1985 issignificantly...

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Is Technological Change Biased Towards the Unskilled in Services? An Empirical Investigation

Reshef, Ariell - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 16 (2013) 2, pp. 312-331

I fit a two-sector general equilibrium model to U.S. data in 1963-2005 in order to infer technological processes that affect the college premium. In skill intensive services factor augmenting technological change is slower for college graduates relative to less skilled workers. I find the...

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On the incentives to increase input efficiency under monopoly trade unions

Biswas, Tapan; McHardy, Jolian - In: Review of Economic Analysis 4 (2012) 1, pp. 39-51

(Originally published in the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization 2007, 62(4), 657-669) - We examine the effects of and the incentives for increasing input efficiency within a spatially segregated Cournot duopoly with monopoly trade unions whose utility functions depend on both wages...

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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations

Rycx, Francois; Kampelmann, Stephan - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...

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Growth and Competition in a Model of Human Capital Accumulation and Research

Bianco, Dominique - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between competition and growth in a model of human capital accumulation and research by disentangling the monopolistic mark-up in the intermediate goods sector and the returns to specialization in order to have a better measure of competition....

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