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Francesco Caselli

Technology Differences over Space and Time

Francesco Caselli

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Princeton University Press
13 February 2017
Macroeconomics
Series: CREI Lectures in Macroeconomics
Technology Differences over Space and Time looks at how countries use their productive resources--such as workers, skills, equipment and structures, and natural resources. Francesco Caselli develops methods to assess the efficiency with which productive inputs are used, and how these efficiencies vary across countries and over time. Caselli finds that richer countries use skilled workers relatively more efficiently than unskilled workers, and equipment and structures relatively more efficiently than natural resources. They also are relatively more efficient users of labor than of capital. Technological change tends to make countries particularly efficient at using skills and less efficient at using capital. Technical change also favors experienced workers. In order to interpret and understand these findings, Caselli presents a theory of technology choice. In this theory, firms pick technologies that make the most efficient use of the most abundant production factors when these factors are good substitutes for the less abundant factors. Firms pick technologies that make the most of less abundant factors when other suitable factors are not available for substitution.

For example, rich countries, where skilled workers are abundant, use skilled workers efficiently, as these are good substitutes for unskilled workers. This flexible framework can be applied to other pairs of inputs, over time, and across countries. Technology Differences over Space and Time has significant implications not only for the theoretical understanding of development and technological innovation, but also for government formulation of industrial policy and multinationals making decisions about what to invest in and where to make those investments.
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Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   255g
ISBN:   9780691146027
ISBN 10:   0691146020
Series:   CREI Lectures in Macroeconomics
Pages:   144
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Francesco Caselli is the Norman Sosnow Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and a fellow of the British Academy.

Reviews for Technology Differences over Space and Time

"""Caselli—in his compact, but rich and inspiring compendium—proposes a fascinating universal framework which takes into consideration differences existing (and changing in time) across countries in terms of capital (natural and physical) and labor (skilled and unskilled).""---Mariacristina Piva, Journal of Economics"


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