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

Heshmati, Almas - 2011

call technology shifters (economic factors). We use several composite technology indices based on appropriate combinations … of the external economic factors which are indicators of different aspects of technology. These technology indices are … specific external economic factors. Furthermore, the technology shifters allow for non-neutral and biased shifts in TC. We also …

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

Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative andqualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatorypower of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on theissue, with reference...

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Management as a Technology?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … size-weighted average management score. We present a formal model of "Management as a Technology", and structurally …

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Employment and Exchange Rates : The Role of Openness and Technology

Alexandre, Fernando - 2009

. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition … and with the technology level. This paper contributes by bringing together these two views, both theoretically and … empirically. We show that both the degree of openness and the technology level mediate the impact of exchange rate movements on …

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Public and Private Insurance with Costly Transactions

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2010

We characterize how public insurance schemes are constrained by hidden financial transactions. When non-exclusive private insurance entails increasing unit transaction costs, public transfers are only partly offset by hidden private transactions, and can influence consumption allocation. We show...

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Trade as a Wage Disciplining Device

Persyn, Damiaan - 2021

We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result...

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Leader Networks and Transaction Costs : A Chinese Experiment in Interjurisdictional Contracting

Chau, Nancy H. - 2016

Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas, and investigate the role of leader networks on the boundary between jurisdictions that embrace trade versus autarky....

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Checkerboards and Coase : Transactions Costs and Efficiency in Land Markets

Akee, Randall - 2021

The Coase theorem emphasizes the role transactions costs play in efficient market outcomes. We document inefficient outcomes, in the presence of a transactions cost, in southern California land markets and the corresponding transition to efficient outcomes after the transactions cost is...

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Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cell Phones on Productivity in a Difficult Business Climate : Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya

Menon, Nidhiya - 2014

owners. The exogenous component of technology ownership is isolated by using information on the regional presence of … average regional elevation. Results indicate that for firms with female owners, technology adoption improves value-added per …

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Improving Entrepreneurs' Digital Skills and Firms' Digital Competencies Through Business Apps Training : A Study of Small Firms

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

revealed that business apps training was positively associated with entrepreneurs' attitudes toward technology, willingness to … change (relating to technology/skills/operations), and internet/digital skills, as well as increased use of business apps …

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