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Exhaustible Resources, Technology Choice and Industrialization of Developing Countries
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
How should the world economy adapt to the increased demand for exhaustible resources from countries like China and India? To address that issue, this paper presents a dynamic model of the world economy with two technologies for production; a resource technology which uses an exhaustible resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511659
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Dynamic Micro-Macro Market Coordination and Technical Change
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1985
This paper discusses the nature of macro productivity change from the perspective of a Schumpeterian micro-to-macro (M … productivity change at aggregate levels . This is especially so when relative prices are shifty as a consequence of the ongoing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818347
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Centralized Bargaining, Multi-Tasking, and Work Incentives
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
The paper examines the implications of an important aspect of the ongoing reorganization of work - the move from occupational specialization toward multi-tasking - for centralized wage bargaining. The analysis shows how, on account of this reorganization, centralized bargaining becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818365
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Reorganization of Firms and Labor Market Inequality
Lindbeck, Assar; Dennis J. Snower , Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995
In what follows, we examine the consequences of the development for the reorganization of work, the breack-down of occupational barriers, the transformation of job opportunities, and the implications for inequality in the labor market.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600205
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Electronics, Economic Growth and Employment – Revolution or Evolution
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1982
The "new electronics technology" in its various manifestations has been very much in the limelight during recent years. It has been associated with future mass unemployment or scary visions of a Brave New World, a grand discontinuity in economic and cultural development. Governments are worried...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684418
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Economies of Scale and Technological Change: An International Comparison of Blast Furnance Technology
Carlsson, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1975
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684523
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082494
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Implications of skilled-biased technological change:international evidence.
BERMAN Eli,BOUND John, MACHIN Stephen - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997
Demand for less skill decreased. They argue that pervasive skill biased technological change rather than increased trade with developing world is the principal culprit.The pervasiveness of this technological change is important because:1)immediate and testable implication of technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639331
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Parallel Development? Productivity Growth Following Electrification and the ICT Revolution
Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish … productivity growth and the overall contribution to labor productivity growth was considerably higher in technology … adopters of electric motors and ICT, on average would have contributed more to productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645326
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Reorganization of Firms and Labor Market Inequality.
Lindbeck, A.; Snower, D.J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995
In what follows, we examine the consequences of the development for the reorganization of work, the breack-down of occupational barriers, the transformation of job opportunities, and the implications for inequality in the labor market.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670115