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The diffusion of technological progress in ICT

Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2020

We study whether technology gains in sectors related to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) increase productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative price of ICT goods and services in a structural VAR...

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Institutions, holdup and automation

Presidente, Giorgio - 2019

This paper documents a positive relationship between labor-friendly institutions and investment in industrial robots in a sample of advanced economies. Institutions explain a substantial proportion of cross-country variation in automation. The relationship between institutions and robots is...

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Population aging and inventive activity

Irmen, Andreas; Litina, Anastasia - 2016

This research empirically establishes and theoretically motivates the hypothesis that population aging has a hump-shaped effect on inventive activity. We estimate this hump-shaped relationship in a panel of 33 OECD countries over the period 1960-2012. The increasing part of the hump captures the...

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Heterogeneous effects of capital-embodied innovation on labor market

Park, Hyejin; Shim, Younghun - 2024

This paper develops an occupation-level measure of Capital-Embodied Innovation (CEI) by matching patents with capital goods based on their text similarity. The impact of CEI on labor demand is heterogeneous, depending on the similarity between capital and occupational tasks. Specifically, CEI...

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Project Management Under Internet Era : How to Respond to Challenging Changes in the Digital Era

Lin, Shaopei; Huang, Dan - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.

Taking account of modern digital era, the emergence of Internet has brought a new scenario of ecology in project … Management Under Internet Era is urgently needed for renewing concepts in our PM community. The concept of how PM is implemented … on the virtual platform through Internet, which is widely used in PM community based on knowledge economy; meanwhile, it …

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Digital Technologies in Teaching and Learning Strategies : Proceedings of DTTLS-2021

Lyapin, Alexandr (ed.); Kalinina, Olga (ed.) - Digital Technologies in Teaching and Learning … - 2022

Comparative Study between Traditional Learning and Digital Learning amid the COVID 19 Pandemic -- The Use of Information and Communication Technologies in the Activities of Higher Educational Institutions of Ukraine -- Using Polar Indexes to Improve the Efficiency of Regional Management --...

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Can a growing world be fed when the climate is changing?

Dietz, Simon; Lanz, Bruno - 2019 - This version: November 2019

We study the capacity to meet food demand under conditions of climate change, economic and population growth. We take a novel approach to quantifying climate impacts, based on a model of the global economy structurally estimated on the period 1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features...

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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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Growth and welfare under endogenous lifetime

Schneider, Maik T.; Winkler, Ralph - 2017 - This Version: February 2017

We study the role of endogenous healthcare choices by households to extend their expected lifetimes on economic growth and welfare in a decentralized overlapping generations economy with the realistic feature that households' savings are held in annuities. We characterize healthcare spending in...

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The complementary between technology and human capital in the early phase of industrialization

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This Version: July 21st, 2015

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...

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