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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014

An increasingly influential technological-discontinuity paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited...

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The role of education in technology use and adoption: Evidence from the Canadian workplace and employee survey

Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - 2012

Adoption of innovations by firms and workers is an important part of the process of technological change. Many prior studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster than those with less education. Such positive correlations between the level of education and the...

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Technology and child development: Evidence from the one laptop per child program

Cristia, Julián P.; Ibarrarán, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; … - 2012

Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of...

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Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - 2002

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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Reassessing the standard of living in the Soviet Union: an analysis using archival and anthropometric data

Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2006

Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade …

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Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

reforms on equity and efficiency for thecase of Germany... …

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Normative Judgments Implicit in the Tax System: A Simulation Approach

Isaak, Niklas; Jessen, Robin - 2024

How much does society value redistribution? The common method to derive inverse-optimum welfare weights is by inverting an optimal-tax model. Our alternative imposes fewer restrictions on labor supply and enables comparisons across household types. We use a structural labor supply model to...

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Does Social Pension Insurance Increase the Efficiency of Household Financial Portfolios?

Liu, Xueying; Zhao, Zhong - 2024

This study investigates the impact of social pension insurance on the efficiency of household financial portfolios … significantly enhances the efficiency of household financial portfolios, partly through the channels of risk attitude and …

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Hope, Noise, and the Efficiency of Perfect Meritocracy

Beltrametti, Luca; Cardullo, Gabriele - 2024

This paper explores the economic effects of imperfect meritocracy in recruitment and career advancement. We compare two career promotion mechanisms: a fully meritocratic system and a "noisy" one, that allows less productive workers to advance. Our model shows that imperfect meritocracy in...

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A Measure of Well-Being Efficiency Based on the World Happiness Report

Sarracino, Francesco; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective … Analysis to a sample of 126 countries. Efficiency scores reveal that high ranking subjective well-being countries, such as the … Nordics, are not strictly the most efficient ones. Also, the scores are uncorrelated with economic efficiency. This suggests …

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