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adopting a computer. This premium, however, obscures important differences in returns to computer adoption across education and … occupation groups. We find that long-run returns to computer use are over 5% for most workers. Differences between short-run and … long-run returns may suggest that workers share training costs through sacrificed wages …
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find that within a year of adopting a computer, the average worker earns a 3.6 percent higher wage than a worker who never … used a computer. Returns are even larger for managers and professionals, highly educated workers, and those with … significant prior computer experience. Employees who adopt computers for use with applications that require high cognitive skills …
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The paper investigates the effects of agglomeration and specialization of technological activities on regional productivity growth, applying the notion of pecuniary knowledge externalities. The latter are indirect interdependencies between firms mediated by the price system. Pecuniary knowledge...
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We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and dirty technologies complete in production and innovation - in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the potential transition to...
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Federal research funding to universities is often based on a desire to stimulate innovation – so that they spend taxpayer money for "something". There is growing understanding of the need to change the structure of research funding in order to do so; less is known about the effectiveness of...
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Federal research funding to universities is often based on a desire to stimulate innovation – so that they spend taxpayer money for “something”. There is growing understanding of the need to change the structure of research funding in order to do so; less is known about the effectiveness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913729
Use of Information technologies (IT's) is increasing day by day in banking industry all over the world. Investment in IT is helping the top level management in achieving their objectives and anticipated targets. This empirical study reveals the contribution and role of IT on the efficiency of...
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We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and dirty technologies compete in production and innovation. in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the potential transition to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485007
In the following article a comparative analysis between Original Data (OD) and Augmented Data (AD) are carried out for the prediction of glycemic status in patients with diabetes. Specifically, the OD concerning the time series of the glycemic status of a patient are compared with AD. The AD are...
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Pischke (1997) of whether there exists a real wage differential associated with computer use. Employing a mixed effects model … that computer users enjoy an almost 4 per cent wage premium over non-users. Failure to correct for the worker selection …
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