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| Ochsen, Carsten; Welsch, Heinz. |
| This paper examines the determinants of functional income distribution in West Germany. The approach is to estimate a complete system of factor share equations for low-skilled labor, high-skilled labor, capital, energy, and materials, taking account of biased technological progress and increasing trade-orientation. Technological progress is found to reduce the share of low-skilled labor and to raise the share of high-skilled labor. The effect of technology bias on the two labor shares is enhanced by substitution of intermediate inputs for lowskilled labor, which is almost absent in the case of high-skilled labor. Trade-induced changes in the composition of aggregate output tend to mitigate these effects, due to the relatively favorable export performance... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Income shares; Factor substitution; Technological progress; Trade; D33; F16; O30. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37135 |
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| Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W.. |
| To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness), demographic variables (youth and aged dependency ratios, urbanization rate), infrastructure indicators (telephone density, electricity consumption), telecommunications pricing measures, and regulatory quality. With the exception of trade openness and the telecom pricing measures, these variables enter in as statistically significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density and aged dependency... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Computers; Internet; Digital divide; Infrastructure; Pricing; Regulation; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession; O30; L96. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28408 |
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| Abdulai, Awudu; Glauben, Thomas; Herzfeld, Thomas; Zhou, Shudong. |
| Whereas water is an important input in rice production, China faces severe problems with increasing demand for water and limited water resources. In conventional paddy production, one of the most important irrigated crops, a significant amount of irrigation water is lost due to percolation and evaporation. Therefore, it exist a vivid research in water saving rice technologies. This paper analyzes the adoption of one of these water-saving rice production technologies, the so-called Ground Cover Rice Production System (GCRPS), in the Hubei province. Based on farm survey data several factors which affect the adoption decision could be identified. The adoption decision is treated as a binary choice problem and therefore a probit model is used for the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: China; Technology adoption; Water; GCRPS; Probit; Crop Production/Industries; O30; Q16. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24708 |
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| Ruttan, Vernon W.. |
| In work published in the 1980's Yujro Hayami and I elaborated a theory of institutional innovations in which institutional changes are induced, on the demand side, by changes in relative resource endowments and technical change and, on the supply side, by changes in cultural endowments and advances in social science knowledge. In the mid-1980's I initiated a research program to explore what development economists might learn from research by other social scientists working in the field of development. In this paper I draw on this earlier work, and on related literature to explore the conditions under which interdisciplinary imperialism or interdisciplinary collaboration can be most productive. I argue that when the objective of research is to advance... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: International Development; O30. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12978 |
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| Ranis, Gustav. |
| Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in turn, is necessary to generate further advances in human development. This paper focuses on the first channel above and finds the relationship significant. Secondly, the paper tries to investigate what affects technology change, as represented by TFP. We examine the influence of openness, FDI, patents and R&D in a 22 country sample and also contrast Asian and Latin American experience. |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Technology; Human Development; International Development; F00; F16; J24; O10; O15; O30; O31; O32. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118649 |
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