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What does human capital do? : a review of Goldin and Katz’s The Race between Education and Technology
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H. - 2012
Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488819
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The Equipment Hypothesis and U.S. Economic Growth
Field, Alexander J. - 2009
In several articles published in the 1990s, de Long and Summers argued that investment in producer durables had a high propensity to generate externalities in using industries, resulting in a systematic and substantial divergence between its social and private return. They maintained, moreover,...
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A model of technology transfer in Japan's rapid economic growth period
Aoki, Shuhei - 2011
technology transfer, where firms in a developed country (the U.S.) transfer technology to the competitors in a developing country … (Japan) if it is profitable to do so and where the technology transfer is the engine of economic growth. In this model, among … the developed country transferred technology to the firms in the developing country, resulting in rapid growth. However …
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The Origins of U.S. Total Factor Productivity Growth in the Golden Age
Field, Alexander J. - 2009
A consideration of TFP growth in the United States during the golden age (1948-73) raises two related questions: on the one hand why was it so strong and on the other hand, why were TFP growth rates lower than they were during the Depression years (1929-41)? A continuing downward trend in TFP...
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Sectoral technology and structural transformation
Herrendorf, Berthold; Herrington, Christopher; … - 2012
This paper assesses the importance for structural transformation of three features of sectoral technology: labor …
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Structural Transformation of Occupation Employment
Duernecker, Georg; Herrendorf, Berthold - 2021
We use census data to show that structural transformation reflects a fundamental reallocation of labor from goods to services, instead of a relabelling that occurs when goods-producing firms outsource their in-house service production. The novelty of our approach is that it categorizes labor by...
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Verdoorn-Kaldor’s law : an empirical analysis with time series data in the United States
Castiglione, Concetta - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 3, pp. 135-151
Verdoorn's law refers to a statistical relationship between the long-run growth rate of labour productivity and the growth rate of output, usually for the manufacturing sector. Since the sixties this relationship has been examined in a large number of studies using a wide variety of data sets...
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Technology adoption in input-output networks
Han, Xintong; Xu, Lei - 2019
technology adoption that incorporates such a network and estimate it using a complete dataset of Python packages. Estimation …
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Embodied and disembodied technological change : the sectoral patterns of job-creation and job-destruction
Dosi, Giovanni; Piva, Mariacristina; Virgillito, Maria … - 2019
This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019248
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Embodied and disembodied technological change : the sectoral patterns of job-creation and job-destruction
Dosi, Giovanni; Piva, Mariacristina; Virgillito, Maria … - 2019
This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022748