Showing papers in "Structural Change and Economic Dynamics in 1998"

TL;DR: In this paper, a second-order learning model is proposed to model technological innovation as a coupled, secondorder learning system comprising a population of consumers and a populations of firms, and it is shown that, while the system tends to converge towards a limited number of design configurations, there is no reason to expect it to stabilize around a single design.

TL;DR: This article explored possible explanations for the gender gap in education using a model of parental investment in children, showing that disparities in investment could come through differences in returns realized by parents, for example, in the probability of transfers from children to parents or in the degree of sympathy or altruism.

TL;DR: In this article, a framework for evaluating the competitive position of nations which relates competitiveness to the concept of welfare maximization is presented, which includes an evaluation of wages and productivity, as well as the social and environmental standards at which this result is achieved.

TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical model of the importance of country-level determinants in explaining export shares and shares of FDI for 41 developing and industrialized countries is presented. But the model is limited to the case of developing countries.

TL;DR: This paper develops a micro-level input—output process model and discusses how the basic model can be extended and used by managers for structural analysis, process analysis and environmental management.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantitatively identify changes in technological opportunities during the last century using US patent data classified at a very detailed level as the source of reference and show how the composition of technological opportunities has evolved across historical waves.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the Bank of Italy survey of household budgets and find that monetary transfers between Italian households are mainly destined to children up to 30, and reinforce the conclusion that participating in an informal credit arrangement has a fixed cost for the lender.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the model of Nelson and Winter with a lattice-based spatial structure in order to study the effects of localized learning and increasing returns to adoption on the emergence and persistence of technological diversity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that joint custody may reduce the negative impact of divorce on children's welfare, allowing both parents after divorce to participate in decisions regarding their children by having opportunities to share time and other resources with them.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce long waves into Pasinetti's model of structural change on the assumption that productivity growth is fundamentally driven by technological revolutions, which produces a leap in productivity which progressively extends throughout on a nonlinear path.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the prospects for reducing plastic waste in the US through source reduction and recycling over the next decade, and constructed a database describing use of eight categories of plastics and linked it to a 90-sector input-output database and model of the US economy.

TL;DR: In this paper, a reduced-form model which explores negative and positive feedback between the rate of a firm's cost reduction and its market share (dynamic returns to scale) was constructed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on the asymmetric effect of capital stock on employment and employed cointegration analysis for the determination of wages, unemployment and the ratio of the long-term unemployed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest a theoretical model of technological evolution where innovative activity is modelled as myopic search at the micro-level, and technological progress is pushed forward not only by own search activities, but also collectively by technological interaction, such as imitation and cross-fertilization effects.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of household labor supply using an econometric approach that allows simultaneous decisions of household members, complex and non-convex choice sets induced by tax and benefit rules and quantity constraints on hours choice, was estimated using the 1993 Bank of Italy's survey of household income and wealth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose an evolutionary model of industrial development, which allows firms to search for innovation and allow for entry of new firms, and show how skewed size distributions emerge.

TL;DR: In this article, a decomposition analysis was applied to a time series set of input-output tables for the Chicago region in an attempt to generate assessments of the internal and external multipliers and their changes over time.

TL;DR: In this article, a model for the joint determination of wages of women and of their potential husbands, the probability that women are currently married, and how many children they have was proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the properties of a dynamic disequilibrium model focused on trade specialization and knowledge accumulation and showed that under perfectly balanced growth international diffusion of knowledge is irrelevant for growth.

TL;DR: The material dissipative conditions and the material transferability system appropriate for recognizing the material dissipation of economic systems with recycling sectors are introduced.

TL;DR: In this article, the level of fixed costs is assumed to be endogenous with higher levels resulting in progressively higher labour productivity, and it is shown that conclusions regarding the multiplicity of decentralised equilibria are not robust to this change.

TL;DR: In this article, the complementarity between conventional methodologies for measuring efficiency (i.e., output-capital coefficients, gestation period of investment) and the Abel-Mankiw-Summers-Zeckhauser cash-flow criterion [Abel et al., 1989] is demonstrated for the formerly centrally planned countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the toolbox of economic theory, with its strong emphasis on purely rational behaviour and equilibrium, is too restrictive to provide a useful analysis of the complicated phenomenon of technological change.