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Great Guys Weblog: Education and Wealth
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Forum for discussion and essays on a wide range of subjects including technology, politics, economics, philosophy, and partying. Tuesday, June 09, 2015. One of the mantras that I hear fairly frequently goes something like this: "if only we could provide better education for the children, it would lift them out of poverty and. Provide great economic benefits for the the whole country.". Which has the following abstract:. Did human capital contribute to economic growth in England? In 1965, France had a lab...
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Pontydysgu – Bridge to Learning - Educational Research
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Archive for the ‘Career Guidance’ Category. Laquo; Previous Entries. Jobs of the Future. August 22nd, 2016 by Graham Attwell. There is a lot of speculation at the moment as to the jobs of the future. On the one hand, it is said that we are educating young people for jobs which do not yet exist; on the other hand there are dire predictions that up to of existing 55 per cent of jobs may disappear to automation in the next five years. Is based on detailed analysis of 2,000-plus work activities for more than...
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Pontydysgu – Bridge to Learning - Educational Research
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Archive for the ‘careers’ Category. Laquo; Previous Entries. Jobs of the Future. August 22nd, 2016 by Graham Attwell. There is a lot of speculation at the moment as to the jobs of the future. On the one hand, it is said that we are educating young people for jobs which do not yet exist; on the other hand there are dire predictions that up to of existing 55 per cent of jobs may disappear to automation in the next five years. Is based on detailed analysis of 2,000-plus work activities for more than 800 occ...
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James Bessen - Research on Innovation
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Michael J. Meurer. Cecil D. Quillen, Jr. Photos / Videos / Audio. James Bessen is an economist who studies technology and innovation policy. He has also been a successful innovator and CEO of a software company. Currently, Mr. Bessen is Lecturer in Law at the Boston University School of Law. Princeton 2008), highlighting the problems caused by poorly defined property rights. His new book,. Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth. In 1983, Bessen developed the first co...
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Pontydysgu – Bridge to Learning - Educational Research
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Archive for the ‘21stCenturySkills’ Category. Laquo; Previous Entries. The future of work and changing occupational identities. April 24th, 2016 by Graham Attwell. The debate over the future of work, long running in research circles but kicked into public consciousness amongst others a Oxford University study titled ‘ The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation’. Suggesting over 40 per cent of jobs are at threat in the next 11 years due to technology,. Data The article also draw...
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Toil and Technology -- Finance & Development, March 2015
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Finance and Development,. March 2015, Vol. 52, No. 1. Innovative technology is displacing workers to new jobs rather than replacing them entirely. At the Quiet Logistics distribution center north of Boston in the United States, a robot lifts a shelf and transports it through the warehouse to a workstation. There, an employee picks an item from the shelf and places it in a shipping box. Each robot in the distribution center does the work of one and a half humans. Sometimes new technologies eliminate jobs ...
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Research on Innovation - Home
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Michael J. Meurer. Cecil D. Quillen, Jr. Photos / Videos / Audio. 8203;Accounting for Rising Corporate Profits: Intangibles or Regulatory Rents? 8203; Research Summary. How Computer Automation Affects Occupations: Technology, Jobs, and Skills. 8203;Computers Don’t Kill Jobs but Do Increase Inequality. At Harvard Business Review. Shows that a substantial part of the growth in this wage gap can be attributed to computer technology. At The Atlantic.com. Automation isn’t just for blue-collar workers an...
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