Technological Change and the Environment

The Effect of Technological Structure Change on Total Output:An Input-Output Analysis

In this study, the Input- Output Structural Decomposition Analysis (I-O SDA) is used to investigate the effects of technological structure changes on changes of total output in Sistan and Baluchestan Province during 2006-2011. The technological structure change is decomposed into two factors: intermediate input structure changes (input substitution) and change in direct backward linkage. The re...

The Stringency Of Environmental Regulations And Technological Change: A Specific Test Of The Porter Hypothesis

Food Security and Land Use Change under Conditions of Climatic Variability

Food security covers aspects at all spatial levels from local to global and from an interdisciplinary and systemic food systems perspective. This book aims to better understand environmental, nutritional, agricultural, demographic, socioeconomic, political, technological, and institutional drivers, costs, and outcomes of current and future food security. Interactions with contextual factors inc...

The Effect of Technological Changes on Employment: Regional I-O SDA Approach

I n this study, the Regional Input- Output Structural Decomposition Analysis (I-O SDA) is used to investigate the effects of technological changes on employment in Sistan and Baluchestan Province of Iran during 2006-2011. This paper develops the SDA method to decompose the technological change from two viewpoints of supply and demand for intermediate inputs in each sector. These chan...

آینده شناسی آموزش عالی: راهبردها و پیامدهای سازگاری دانشگاه با محیط و جامعه

In dynamic world that the continuous change is its fixed laws, important parts of higher education and university as small world in major society in form of conservative institutions in compared with power, culture, government and industry, have stayed approximately static. In compared with first decades of the second half of the last century that university become valid social institutions, it...

International Capital Movements and Relative Wages: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing Industries

In this paper, we use a multi-sector specific factors model with international capital mobility to examine the effects of globalization on the skill premium in U.S. manufacturing industries. This model allows us to identify two channels through which globalization affects relative wages: effects of international capital flows transmitted through changes in interest rates, and effects of international...