Questions tagged [technological-progress]
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How to measure and demonstrate risks of technological uneployment or dualisation?
Our country is consudering its own strategy for artificial intelligence. Currently it is being considered at the level of ministerial secretaries and the next move is the plenary committe of ministers ...
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Costs of transportation
I assume that it makes sense to ask for the energy costs of transportation of different goods per weight and volumetric mass density, depending on the means of transportation (truck, train, ship, etc.)...
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Technological unemployment
I am doing a project on technological change in the job market, that is the substitution of routine occupations and increasing demand for high-skilled jobs.
I have done some research on this and now I ...
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Can we see the computer age in the productivity statistics?
Robert Solow famously said:
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics
This quote is often linked with the productivity paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Reference Request: Primer on Relationship Economic Growth and Science / Technology
I'm in the early stages of planning a research agenda in this area, which means studying the current literature with an eye for further research opportunities.
The Economics of Science and ...
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How technology will help economists to do better predictions?
Would technologies as AI, BI and Big Data help the economists to make better predictions and test models to solve problems like "What level of fiscal stimulus is better for a especific country?"
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Labour-saving vs. Labour-augmenting technical change
I've read a number of posts on the above topic but none refers to published empirical papers. Google searches have been hopeless. Does anyone know of any paper on empirical derivation of technical ...
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Was there a Role of Technology in Macroeconomic Models before Solow?
Was the role of technological progress formalised by Solow (1956) for the first time? or at least he provided the initial formal insight into the role of technological progress in economic growth?
