1 Overall wage inequality and educational wage differentials have expanded substantially in the United States over the past two decades. This widening of the wage structure has coincided with the rapid computerization of the work place. Thus, it is not surprising that many labor market analysts have tried to draw a causal connection between rising earnings inequality and increases in growth rat...

This paper intends to investigate how process and product technological changes are sought and conducted by Brazilian semiconductor companies. The semiconductor sector (strongly represented by chips) deserves special attention in the set of links composing the various supply chains of the electronic industrial complex, since it is highly strategic in this context. A survey with all semiconducto...

We introduce publicly funded education in R&D-based economic growth theory. The framework allows us to i) incorporate a realistic process of human capital accumulation for industrialized countries, ii) reconcile R&D-based growth theory with the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic prosperity and population growth, iii) revise the policy invariance result of semi-endogenous gr...