The Comparative Advantage of Educated Workers in Implementing New Technology

Bartel, Ann P.; Lichtenberg, Frank R.

doi:10.2307/1937894

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“…The relative importance of human capital has been also studies over the stages (age) of the plants, and similar evidence has been found in line with the studies over the stages of ILC: the importance of human capital is declining as the age of the plant is increasing [10].…”

Section: Determinants Of Innovation Propensitysupporting

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Innovation determinants over industry life cycle

Tavassoli

2015

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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This paper analyzes how the influence of firm-level innovation determinants varies over the industry life cycle. Two sets of determinants are distinguished: (1) determinants of a firm's innovation propensity, i.e. the likelihood of being innovative and (2) determinants of its innovation intensity, i.e. innovation sales. By combining the literature emphasizing firms' internal resources (micro level) with the research strand on the role of the industry context (mesolevel), the paper develops hypotheses about the relative importance of firm-level innovation determinants over the industry life cycle. Estimation of a firm-level model of innovation in Sweden, while acknowledging the stage of the life cycle of the industry a firms belongs to, shows that the importance of the determinants of innovation propensity and intensity are not equal over the stages of an industry's life cycle.

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Section: Determinants Of Innovation Propensitysupporting

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“…Human capital is considered as reflecting a firm's capacity to absorb, assimilate and develop 'new knowledge and technology' [10] [11]. The more such new knowledge and technology, the more innovation propensity of the firms is expected [12] [13].…”

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Innovation determinants over industry life cycle

Tavassoli

2015

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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“…The importance of skills has been emphasised by, for example, Finegold and Soskice (1988), Bartel and Lichtenberg, 1987;Caroli and Van Reenen, 2001;and Bresnahan et. al., 2002;etc. (vi) A series of industry dummy variables to reflect environmental factors such as different industry conditions, markets, and types of innovations and payoffs to firms in different industries (SIC j ).…”

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e-Business usage across and within firms in the UK: profitability, externalities and policy

2009

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Using data from the third UK Community Innovation Survey we model the usage of e-business across and within firms in the UK in the year 2000 as a single observation upon an integrated process of inter-and intra-firm diffusion. The intra-firm dimension is a significant extension to standard analysis. The model estimates indicate that the pattern of ebusiness usage reflects the heterogeneity of firms in terms of size, other innovative activity and labour force skills (generating differences in the payoffs to use) as well as market and non-market intermediated externalities. The policy implications of the findings are discussed. JEL Classification: O3

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“…Bartel and Lichtenberg (1987) also found that new vintages of capital stimulate the demand for more educated workers. On the other hand, the ratio of computer specialists and engineers to total employment within an industry has a very significant negative effect on the growth in motor skills, suggesting that their efforts are aimed at reducing the skill requirements of production-line workers.…”

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Technology and the Demand for Skills

Wolff¹

2006

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The Comparative Advantage of Educated Workers in Implementing New Technology

Cited by 676 publications

References 8 publications

Innovation determinants over industry life cycle

Innovation determinants over industry life cycle

e-Business usage across and within firms in the UK: profitability, externalities and policy

Technology and the Demand for Skills

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