Format:
1 Online-Ressource (400 pages)
ISBN:
9781035304936
Content:
During the past two centuries, major technological breakthroughs such as the steam engine and electricity have acted as the catalysts for growth and have resulted in a marked increase in material well-being. The dominant technology today - information and communication technology (ICT) - does not seem to drive growth as effectively and has coincided with an apparent increase in wage inequality. This book provides explanations of these two characteristics of modern economies and analyses them from both an individual and integrated perspective. Richard Nahuis explores and combines the seemingly separate phenomena of wage inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers, and the relatively low productivity growth experienced by most countries. The author provides a number of alternative theories for the increase in wage inequality as a result of new technologies, combined with an extensive review of the associated literature. He goes on to detail the technological revolution, describe why this does not necessarily result in high productivity growth and outline the best methods to measure productivity in the new economy. This exhaustive exploration of productivity growth and wage inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers in the knowledge economy will be welcomed by economists and policymakers interested in the complex relationships between labour markets, innovation and technical change
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Knowledge and economic growth: General Introduction and outline -- 2. On technology, trade and wage inequality: A survey -- Part II: Theory -- 3. A gpt in a research and assimilation model: Exploring wage dynamics (i) -- 4. We don't see what we learn: The solow residual, a gpt and inequality -- 5. Vested interests and resistance: Adopting a general purpose technology -- 6. The skill premium and appropriability: Exploring wage dynamics (ii) -- 7. Specific technology, variety, spillovers and welfare -- Part III: Empirical applications -- 8. Economic development and trade in the world economy: Introducing worldscan -- 9. Openness, growth and r&d spillovers: An r&d-amended version of worldscan -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781843763239
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als ISBN 9781843763239
Additional Edition:
Elektronische Reproduktion von Nahuis, Richard, 1971 - 2005 Knowledge, inequality and growth in the new economy Cheltenham, UK [u.a.] : Elgar, 2003 ISBN 1843763230
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1843763230
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
New Economy
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Wirtschaftswachstum
;
Einkommensverteilung
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