Questions tagged [technological-progress]
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Idea Production Function References
I've read in growth theory about the Idea production function:
$\dot{A}=f(A,S)$
which states that the change in ideas or blueprints or patents is a function of past ideas and the number of scientists.
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Basic question i guess
I'm not in economics, I'm actually studying sociology and I'm doing a subject about labor economics. I'm reading an article that talks about automation and says "The employment impact of ...
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Can demand side restrictions explain the productivity paradox (Solow paradox)?
Productivity paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox is the name for the slow productivity growth (i.e. slow GDP growth) of the developed economies despite the robotics, AI, ...
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Would directing more money to science and research and development be an effective response to recessions?
Typical responses to recessions is to follow Keynesian economics and support demand. Would directing money towards science and research and development be a better long term solution to recessions ...
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Neutral technical progress
Recently I learnt that Cobb-Douglas production function has elasticity of substitution equal to 1, therefore it has neutral technical progress. Then Leontief production function has zero elasticity of ...
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Why labor-augmenting technological progress increases employment and wages?
My textbook says that advances in technology typically raise the marginal product of labor and shift the labor demand curve to the right and calls it labor-augmenting technological advances. The book ...
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Are short-let platforms really contributing to rising rent prices?
Short-term rent services such as AirBnB are often criticized for eroding the communities by increasing rent prices for locals:
... as short-term letting transfers much-needed housing from the ...
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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?"
Is ...
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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?