Production synergies, technology adoption, unemployment, and wages

Gwen Eudey and Miguel Molico

No 2001-29, Finance and Economics Discussion Series from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Abstract: Recent empirical work reveals considerable heterogeneity in the use of technologies within industries, suggesting technology adoption depends on factors other than industry type. We present a model in which the factors that lead to heterogeneous technology adoption play a key economic role in explaining other aspects of the U.S. economy that have been the focus of recent theoretical work, including wage and technology dispersion within and between skill groups and the U-shaped pattern of measured productivity that many other researchers have attributed to learning economies or to production externalities.

Keywords: Technology; Econometric models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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