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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2012

This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...

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Does the Growth Process Discriminate Against Older Workers?

Langot, François; Moreno-Galbis, Eva - 2021

This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment, when considering heterogeneous agents in terms of age. We introduce life cycle features in the endogenous job destruction framework à la Mortensen and Pissarides (1998). We show that, under the assumption of...

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Sooner Rather than Later : Social Networks and Technology Adoption

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Satish, Varun; Sulaiman, Munshi; … - 2021

Using data from a randomised experiment in Kenya, we estimate the causal effect of social networks on technology adoption. In this experiment, farmers were invited to information sessions about the use of Tissue Culture Banana (TCB), an in vitro banana cultivation technology. We find that an...

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Migration, Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations

Bahar, Dany - 2016

Do migrants shape the dynamic comparative advantage of their sending and receiving countries? To answer this question we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion...

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Trade Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption

Cervellati, Matteo - 2013

equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between trade and political regimes. Openness should …

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The Value of Information in Technology Adoption

Islam, Asad - 2019

We develop a theoretical model in which technology adoption decisions are based on the information received from others about the quality of a new technology and on their risk attitudes. We test the predictions of this model using a randomized field experiment in Bangladesh. We show that the...

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The 'Dynamic' of Job Competition During the ICT Revolution

Chéron, Arnaud - 2012

Our paper seeks to gain insights on the effect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization process of the labor market fostered by the diffusion of novel technologies. Based on micro data,...

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What Happens When Agent T Gets a Computer? The Labor Market Impact of Cost Efficient Computer Adoption

Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - 2021

This paper offers a model to explain how computer technology has changed the labor market. It demonstrates that wage differentials between computer users and non-users are consistent with the fact that computers are first introduced in high-wage jobs because of cost efficiency. Furthermore,...

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F. - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lynch, Lisa M. - 2014

States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments in organizational innovation. Past profits tend to be positively associated with organizational innovation. Employers … being part of a multi-establishment firm) are more likely to invest in organizational innovation. Investments in human …

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