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Education, governance, and trade- and distance-related technology diffusion : accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP gap, and the TFP impact of South America's greater dist...
Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology …-related) model. Findings are: i) TFP increases with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports' R&D content, and declines with … gap than raising governance or openness; iv) the TFP impact on South America relative to Mexico due to its greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011734518
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Education, governance, and trade- and distance-related technology diffusion : accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP gap, and the TFP impact of South America's greater dist...
Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology …-related) model. Findings are: i) TFP increases with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports' R&D content, and declines with … gap than raising governance or openness; iv) the TFP impact on South America relative to Mexico due to its greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120103
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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262337
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A Comparison of the Human Capital and Signaling Models: The Case of the Self-Employed and the Increase in the Schooling Premium in the 1980?s
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980?s. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262368
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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers: Industry versus country analysis
Schneider, Dorothee - 2010
In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high-, medium-, and low-skilled workers. Com- pared to other studies, I investigate this question using a considerably richer data set with respect to the length of time series, set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270727
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Openness and technological innovation in East Asia: have they increased the demand for skills?
Almeida, Rita K. - 2009
This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. We explore a unique firm level data set across eight countries. Our results strongly support the idea that greater openness and technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271290
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Skill-biased technological change, international trade and the wage structure
Kölling, Arnd; Schank, Thorsten - 2002
During the last two decades, the labour demand structure in Germany has experienced a decrease in the demand for the low skilled. Possible explanations for this trend are investigated in this study for West Germany (1994- 1997) using a unique linked employer-employee panel data set for Germany....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299232
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The Multi-Dimensional Nature of Labor Demand and Skill-Biased Technical Change
Mellander, Erik - 1999
Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334915
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Accelerated Technological Progress - An Explanation for Wage Dispersion and a Possible Solution to the Productivity Paradox
Nikutowski, Oliver - 2007
Due to scarcity considerations an increase in the supply of college graduates should reduce the premium for this kind of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427502
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Market Size or Acceleration Effects; Comparing Hy pothese s to Explain Skill Biased Technical Change
Sanders, Mark - 2005
Skill-biased technical change has occupied empirical economists for much of the 90s. However, the empirical literature has not progressed much beyond observing a positive correlation between technology indicators and demand shifts. Two hypotheses on the root causes of skill biases in technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261506