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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries : A Survey of the Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...

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Youth Labour Markets in Developing and Developed Countries : the Role of the Sectoral Composition of Production

Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2019

In this paper we explore the role of the sectoral composition of gross domestic product (GDP) in explaining the behaviour of youth labour markets. We provide a comparison of the behaviour of youth unemployment rates, employment-population rates, and labour force participation rates between...

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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...

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Human Resources and Innovation : Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital

Fassio, Claudio - 2015

Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom …

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Managers and Productivity Differences

Guner, Nezih - 2016

productivity differences, and the size-dependent distortions emphasized in the misallocation literature. Our findings indicate that …

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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China

Fleisher, Belton M. - 2013

income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese …

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Estimation of Technical Change and TFP Growth Based on Observable Technology Shifters

Heshmati, Almas - 2017

This paper models and estimates total factor productivity (TFP) growth parametrically. The model is a generalization of …

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A General Model of Technical Change with an Application to the OECD Countries

Heshmati, Almas - 2011

In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...

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Artificial Intelligence, Jobs, Inequality and Productivity : Does Aggregate Demand Matter?

Gries, Thomas - 2018

inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i … aggregate demand. A second is that the predictions of AI causing massive job losses and faster growth in productivity and GDP … growth and productivity is stagnating and inequality is rising. Our paper provides a theoretical explanation of this in the …

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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth

Ngai, Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2021

We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...

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