Healthcare Technology: A Domain of Inequality

mesuring the staff technology readiness, the case of a multi national chemical company operating in iran

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The Use of Health Information Technology by Nurses in Healthcare

Background: Health Information Technology (HIT) has the potential for improving the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare and nurses are the largest group of HIT users. Objectives: Therefore, the present study mainly aimed to investigate the use of HIT by nurses in healthcare. Methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study was conducted in four educational and treatmen...

Wage inequality, technology, and trade

Recent widening of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers has been attributed mainly to skill-biased-technical-change and to trade liberalization. This paper examines the effects of the two in a unified model, in which trade and technology adoption are endogenous. The paper has two main results. First, technical progress increases the wage gap in developed and in less developed coun...

Wage Inequality, Technology and Institutions

The Technology Cycle and Inequality

Motivated by the observed rise in the trade of technology, I analyze how technology would spread in a frictionless market. In such a world, low-skilled agents prefer to use old technology because it costs less; their skills do not justify the use of frontier technology. The model generates a technology-life cycle of somewhere between 68 and 124 years and per-capita income differential factors b...