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Growth, Distance to Frontier and Composition of Human Capital

Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas; Vandenbussche, Jérôme - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labour has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer … to the technological frontier under the reasonable assumption that innovation is a relatively more skill intensive …

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Quantifying Quantitative Literacy: Age Heaping and the History of Human Capital

A'Hearn, Brian; Baten, Jörg; Crayen, Dorothee - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Age data frequently display excess frequencies at attractive numbers, such as multiples of five. We use this "age heaping" to measure cognitive ability in quantitative reasoning, or "numeracy". We construct a database of age heaping estimates with exceptional geographic and temporal coverage,...

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Human Capital in Growth Regressions: How Much Difference Does Data Quality Make? An Update and Further Results

de la Fuente, Angel; Doménech, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We construct estimates of educational attainment for a sample of OECD countries using previously unexploited sources. We follow a heuristic approach to obtain plausible time profiles for attainment levels by removing sharp breaks in the data that seem to reflect changes in classification...

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Human Capital In Growth Regressions: How Much Difference Does Data Quality Make?

de la Fuente, Angel; Doménech, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

show that the contribution of TFP to cross-country productivity differentials is substantial and that its relative …

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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper studies a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom; where within a given occupation it may harm some workers while...

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Matching Demand and Supply in a Weightless Economy: Market-Driven Creativity With and Without IPRs

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

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Technological Change, Trade in Intermediates and the Joint Impact on Productivity

Bøler, Esther Ann; Moxnes, Andreas; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper examines the interdependence between innovation and imports of intermediates, and their joint impact on … productivity. We do so by developing a quantitative model with heterogeneous firms and international trade where firms can invest … cover the fixed costs of sourcing foreign inputs, which in turn also has a benign impact on measured productivity. Using …

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Learning by Doing and Multiproduction Effects Over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry

Siebert, Ralph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

In this study we derive a structural econometric model of learning by doing with multiproduct competition from a dynamic oligopoly game. We show the importance to account for multiproduction effects through product differentiation when measuring learning by doing. Using quarterly firm-level data...

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Persistence and Mobility in International Trade

Proudman, James; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The theoretical literature on endogenous growth and international trade suggests that comparative advantage is endogenous. Sector-specific learning by doing and technology transfer respectively provide reasons why initial patterns of international specialization may persist or exhibit mobility...

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Industrial Employment, Investment Equipment and Economic Growth

Dellas, Harris - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

The industrialization of labour is the main engine of growth during the early stages of economic development. In less developed countries, equipment investment has played a less important role than non-equipment investment; and it has only proved growth enhancing when it either encountered a...

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