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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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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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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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Technology and Demand for Skilled Labor in Turkish Private Manufacturing Industries

Aksoy, Tolga - In: Panoeconomicus 56 (2009) 2, pp. 261-279

This paper examines the relationship between technology and demand for skilled labor both historically and empirically. First, it is pointed out that the Industrial Revolution substituted skilled labor with unskilled labor since it has a de-skilling characteristic. Second, the skill-bias feature...

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The Division of Labor and the Market for Organizations

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and toward multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division...

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A nonparametric approach to the decomposition of labor productivity in regional manufacturing

Chávez, Juan Carlos; Ornelas, Luis Fernando López - Banco de México - 2013

This study decomposes both the labor productivity gap and the labor productivity growth into the contributions of technical efficiency, capital deepening and technological change for Mexican manufacturing at the regional level. In order to do so, we apply a methodology that combines two...

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Mudança Tecnológica na Agricultura: uma revisão crítica da literatura e o papel das economias de aprendizado

Filho, Vieira; Ribeiro, José Eustáquio; Silveira, … - In: Brazilian Journal of Rural Economy and Sociology (RESR) 50 (2012) 4

growth is discussed together with the importance of innovation process and the ability to explore external knowledge. The … diffusion, productive dualism and induced innovation are studied. In the dynamic view, the alternative approach of agricultural … major limitation of traditional thinking about agricultural growth is the absence of explanations on innovation and learning …

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Going Soft: How the Rise of Software Based Innovation Led to the Decline of Japan's IT Industry and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley

Arora, Ashish; Branstetter, Lee G.; Drev, Matej - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2011

This paper documents a shift in the nature of innovation in the information technology (IT) industry. Using … comprehensive data on all IT patents granted by the USPTO from 1983-2004, we find strong evidence of a change in IT innovation that … is systematic, substantial, and increasingly dependent on software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had …

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