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MEDICAL INSURANCE, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, AND WELFARE
Economic Inquiry, 1984Concerns have been expressed about the welfare effects of expensive innovations in medical care financed largely through medical insurance. This paper develops a model which considers such issues. It is shown that even if insurance is purchased optimally (subject to a plausible constraint on the form of the contract), innovations may be adopted that ...
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Universal Design and Welfare Technology
2016The paper presents the background for the increased interest for and use of welfare technology. It discusses current definitions of welfare technology and suggests a typology of this technology based on the different definitions. It compares the definitions with that of assistive technology and endeavors to draw a clearer limit between them, in ...
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WELFARE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
Pacific Economic Review, 2006Abstract. This paper examines the welfare effects of aid tied to technology transfer in a two‐country general equilibrium model. In the recipient country, some factors of production employed in a particular industry are difficult to use in other industries because their properties are specific to that industry.
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Multinational Firms, Technology Transfer, and Welfare
SSRN Electronic Journal, 1998We construct an oligopoly model in which a multinational firm has a superior technology compared to local firms in the host country. Workers employed by the multinational acquire knowledge of its superior technology and can spread their knowledge to host firms by switching employers. The multinational chooses to pay a wage premium to prevent host firms
Amy Jocelyn Glass, Kamal Saggi
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Technological Diffusion, Expectations and Welfare.
Oxford Economic Papers, 1986This paper investigates a simple intertemporal model to illustrate the effect of different forms of expectations formation by the buyers of technolog y on the extent and time path of the usage of a new technology. In addition, the related questions of the optimal rate oftake up of new technology, and the des ign of policies to achieve such a rate, are ...
Ireland, N, Stoneman, P
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Reconnecting technological development with human welfare
Futures, 2014Abstract Many observers see advances in technology as the key means for ensuring continued economic growth, and with it human progress as well. In particular, three modern technologies—biotechnology, information technology (sometimes including robotics and cognitive technologies) and nanotechnology—are seen by some researchers as converging and thus ...
Patrick Moriarty, Damon Honnery
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Advances in Technology and Global Welfare
Humanomics, 2003The real impact of advances in technology on global welfare is an unresolved issue. According to a recent Human Development Report, globalization based on technical advances in information technology has not had a positive impact on economies of developing countries. While advances in technology have helped improve standards of living in industrialized
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Interoperability and Convergence for Welfare Technology
2018Interoperability and convergence are two key features of any working sociotechnical infrastructure that includes a plurality and multiplicity of communities of practice using technologies. However, as information systems scale up and the heterogeneity of users increases, it becomes challenging to actualise interoperability and convergence.
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Radiotheranostics in oncology: Making precision medicine possible
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2023Eric Aboagye
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