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Human capital, innovation, and climate policy : an integrated assessment
Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica; Tavoni, Massimo - 2012
This paper looks at the interplay between human capital and innovation in the presence of climate and educational policies. Using recent empirical estimates, human capital and general purpose R&D are introduced in an integrated assessment model that has been extensively applied to study climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535543
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Importing Skill-Biased Technology
Burstein, Ariel - 2011
Capital equipment - such as computers and industrial machinery - embodies skill-biased technology, in the sense that it … skill-biased technology. In this paper we develop a tractable quantitative model of international trade in capital goods to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461199
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Labor Market Shifts and the Price Puzzle Revisited
Krueger, Alan B. - 1997
-Samuelson theory of expanded trade with countries that are abundant in less-skilled workers, as well as with some models of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472900
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The opening up of eastern Europe at 20-jobs, skills, and "reverse maquiladoras" in Austria and Germany
Marin, Dalia - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008652144
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Peer Effects and Human Capital Accumulation : the Externalities of ADD
Aizer, Anna - 2008
Recent work shows that peers affect student achievement, but the mechanisms are not well understood. I show that peer behavior is an important mechanism, perhaps more so than ability, by exploiting exogenous timing in diagnosis/treatment of ADD among peers that improves peer behavior while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464293
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Technology and the Demand for Skill : An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences
Abowd, John M. - 2007
We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465611
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Interjurisdictional competition and location decisions of firms
Hernández-Murillo, Rubén - 2014
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Public input competition under Stackelberg equilibrium : a note
Liu, Yongzheng; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237789
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Competitive Markets without Commitment
Netzer, Nick; Scheuer, Florian - 2008
In the presence of a time-inconsistency problem with optimal agency contracts, we show that competitive markets implement allocations that Pareto dominate those achieved by a benevolent planner, they induce strictly more effort, and they sometimes make the commitment problem disappear entirely....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894094
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The Principle and Market Failure in Systems Competition
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1996
Contrary to a frequent contention, systems competition cannot work when governments respect the Subsidiarity Principle. The principle implies that governments step in where markets fail. Reintroducing markets through the back door of systems competition will again result in market failure. Three...
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