Dimensions of human capital and technological diffusion
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Diffusion and directed technological knowledge, human capital and wages
a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: F43 J31 O31 O33 Keywords: Technological knowledge International trade Human capital Wage inequality By connecting the North–South diffusion and the bias of non-scale technological knowledge and by considering endogenous human capital, we relate the technological-knowledge diffusion with levels, inter-country gaps, growth rates, wage-inequality paths and...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Empirical Economics
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0377-7332,1435-8921
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-019-01777-3