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Optimal Technology, Development and the role of Government

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Hernan J. Moscoso Boedo ()

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This paper highlights the effect of the presence of the goverment and its redistribution policy in the technology adoption decision. As a result it helps explain the differences in skill premium patterns across the North Atlantic between developed economies such as the US and Continental Europe.

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Paper provided by University of Virginia, Department of Economics in its series Virginia Economics Online Papers with number 371.

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Length: 27 pages
Date of creation: May 2006
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Keywords: Taxes; skill biased technological change; skill premium; endogenous technology; inequality;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
E25 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
O23 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Development
O33 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
O40 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
O57 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries

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  1. Hernan J. Moscoso Boedo, 2006. "Former Communist Countries and their transition to Capitalism," Virginia Economics Online Papers 372, University of Virginia, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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