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Convergence in per capita income across countries turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or local in a large class of models. This Paper estimates the amount of spillovers from R&D expenditures in major industrialized countries on a geographic basis. A new data set is...
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This paper studies technological change in renewable energies, providing empirical evidence on the determinants of innovative activity with a special emphasis on the role of knowledge spillovers. We investigate two major renewable energy technologies wind and solar across a panel of 21 OECD...
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panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …
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job creation in the US, is its slower productivity growth. This paper begins with data showing that US productivity growth … has been essentially zero since 1973 outside of manufacturing. In contrast, productivity growth in US manufacturing has …
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We analyse productivity growth in UK manufacturing 1980-92 using the newly available ARD panel of establishments drawn … establishments enter and increase market share). We find that (a) 'external restructuring' accounts for 50% of labour productivity …
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advantage of the possibility of intertemporal subsitution in order to engage in productivity-improving activities during … trend from the cycle. The results are mildly supportive of the OC theory. Demand shocks tend to have a negative impact on … productivity, both in the short and long run, and the short-run impact is stronger in those countries where fluctuations are more …
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This Paper presents firm level evidence on the dynamics of non-manual wage premia and employment shares in Italian manufacturing during the nineties. We find that the relative stability of aggregate wage premia and employment shares hides offsetting disaggregate forces. First, while technical...
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This paper takes an information-theoretic approach to the economics of science, extending Arrow's pioneering (1962) analysis of the allocation of resources for industrial research and invention. It addresses the questions: is there a valid economic distinction between scientific and...
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theory based on institutional differences between the United States and Europe, along with a common acceleration of technical …
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The paper analyses the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work and derives some salient implications for the labour market. The analysis focuses on the switch from occupational specialization at 'Tayloristic' organizations to multi-tasking at 'holistic' organizations....
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