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{"title":"Productivity dynamics of work from home: Firm-level evidence from Japan","authors":"Masayuki Morikawa","doi":"10.1007/s00191-024-00849-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-024-00849-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study documents the changes in work from home (WFH) practices since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic using panel data from original firm surveys in Japan. Particular attention has been given to the productivity dynamics of WFH. The results indicate the following: First, compared to when the first state of emergency was declared in the spring of 2020, at the end of 2021, the ratio of firms utilizing WFH and the intensity of WFH decreased substantially. Second, according to the firms’ evaluations, the mean productivity of WFH improved by more than 10 percentage points, although it was still approximately 20% lower than that of conventional workplaces. The selection effect arising from the exit from this practice among firms with low WFH productivity, and the improvement in productivity among WFH-continuing firms contributed almost equally to the average productivity growth. Third, the majority of firms are planning to discontinue WFH practices and revert to the conventional work style or to reduce WFH intensity after the end of COVID-19, and the gap between firms’ plans and the desire of remote workers is widening.</p>","PeriodicalId":47757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Evolutionary Economics","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140019433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Economics of technology cycle time (TCT) and catch-up by latecomers: Micro-, meso-, and macro-analyses and implications","authors":"Keun Lee","doi":"10.1007/s00191-024-00847-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-024-00847-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper provides an analytical review of the literature on the role of technology cycle time (TCT) in the catching-up process of latecomers at the firm, sectoral, and national levels. At the national level, latecomer economies follow a detour that consists of economic growth through specialization in short-TCT sectors during the catching-up phase, followed by a shift to long-TCT sectors in the post-catching-up phase. The paper then discusses the double-edged nature of TCT at the sectoral level, such that short TCT can either be a window of opportunity associated with the rapid obsolescence of existing technologies and thus low entry barriers, or another source of difficulty associated with the truncation of learning from existing technologies. Only latecomers with a certain absorptive capacity can benefit from short TCT as a window of opportunity. Finally, at the firm level, this paper discusses the issue of possible convergence in the behavior of catching-up firms towards those of mature firms in advanced economies. At all three levels, the keywords are detours and convergence. Given the barriers to entry in long-TCT sectors, latecomers pursue a strategy of detouring into short-TCT sectors. That is, instead of trying to emulate incumbents by entering long-TCT sectors, latecomers take the opposite route. Subsequently, as latecomers improve their capabilities over time, they shift their specialization from short to long TCT sectors, thereby achieving convergence in behavior and strategy at the firm, sectoral, and national levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":47757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Evolutionary Economics","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139768601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Saved by the bell? The effects of compulsory schooling laws on self-employment and earnings in Australia","authors":"Pankaj C. Patel","doi":"10.1007/s00191-023-00846-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-023-00846-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Extending the research on secondary education and entrepreneurship, we ask whether compulsory schooling laws influence selection into and earnings from self-employment. We exploit the increase in the minimum school-leaving age from 14 to 15 in the mid-1960s in Victoria and South Australia. The findings show that for both males and females, likelihood and income from self-employment declined. The additional year of schooling did not influence self-employment through cognitive abilities, locus of control, well-being outcomes, or Big-Five personality dimensions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Evolutionary Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138818362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Outcomes and Review in Surgery of Lateral Semicircular Canal Dehiscence in Cholesteatomatous Otitis Media: A Case Series.","authors":"Andrés González Fernández, Nerea Zubicaray Ayestarán, Daniel Briones Crespo","doi":"10.1007/s12070-023-03973-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12070-023-03973-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Labyrinthine fistula is one of the most frequent complications of cholesteatoma otitis. We report two cases where a canal wall down mastoidectomy is made due to the characteristics of the cholesteatoma, achieving good outcomes in relation to bone conductive hearing.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12070-023-03973-1.</p>","PeriodicalId":47757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Evolutionary Economics","volume":"23 1","pages":"3949-3952"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10645789/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73356901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Superhuman science: How artificial intelligence may impact innovation","authors":"Ajay Agrawal, John McHale, Alexander Oettl","doi":"10.1007/s00191-023-00845-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-023-00845-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>New product innovation in fields like drug discovery and material science can be characterized as combinatorial search over a vast range of possibilities. Modeling innovation as a costly multi-stage search process, we explore how improvements in artificial intelligence (AI) could affect the productivity of the discovery pipeline in allowing improved prioritization of innovations that flow through that pipeline. We show how AI-aided prediction can increase the expected value of innovation and can increase or decrease the demand for downstream testing, depending on the type of innovation, and examine how AI can reduce costs associated with well-defined bottlenecks in the discovery pipeline.</p>","PeriodicalId":47757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Evolutionary Economics","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138508482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Money’s mutation of the modern moral mind: The Simmel hypothesis and the cultural evolution of WEIRDness","authors":"Cameron Harwick","doi":"10.1007/s00191-023-00844-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-023-00844-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Evolutionary Economics","volume":"115 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135345891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Long waves, paradigm shifts, and income distribution, 1929–2010 and afterwards","authors":"Adrian Espinosa-Gracia, Julio Sánchez-Chóliz","doi":"10.1007/s00191-023-00843-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-023-00843-5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The way income is distributed in an economy is perhaps the most notable result of its growth patterns. Understanding the joint persistence of economic crises and changes in social inequality since 1929 is considered a great challenge. This paper tries to analyze growth and income distribution in the long run using the concept of long waves, the evolutionary concept of ‘systems’, and empirical information. We conjecture that the social system is in turn an outcome of the co-evolution of four partially autonomous subdomains: (i) technology, characterized by a paradigm whose evolution follows the shape of a ‘Schumpeterian boom’; (ii) the economy or productive system, essentially defined as the succession of intermediate-length fluctuations in investments, and strongly associated to sectoral and structural changes; (iii) science, which contributes to development by generating innovations; and (iv) institutions, which set the rules in which income distribution is framed. Following this scheme, the data reveal that income distribution is an emerging result from this ‘global social system’ and not only the result of economic productivity and technology; apparently, the weight in the income distribution of institutional factors is as relevant as economic and technological factors. Second, the long-run growth trends are most possibly non-linear and, to great extent, non-deterministic, which would support the representation of long-run phenomena as long waves. Finally, we have found that in the long period 1929–2010 and afterwards, two sub-periods are manifested, with very different regimes of income distribution: (1) 1929–1975, when inequality decreased, and (2) from 1975 to present time, when inequality increased. Concerning the years after 2010, two alternatives follow: either these correspond to the recovery phase of a new long wave, or to the end of the depression phase of our second period. In both cases, we are currently moving towards the expansionary phase of a new long wave, which will have important implications for contemporary economic policies.","PeriodicalId":47757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Evolutionary Economics","volume":"26 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135511160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Uncertainty and the nature of the firm: From Frank Knight and Ronald Coase to an evolutionary approach","authors":"Liudmyla Vozna, Anna Horodecka, Vitalii Travin","doi":"10.1007/s00191-023-00842-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-023-00842-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Evolutionary Economics","volume":"2012 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135805266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Data production and the coevolving AI trajectories: an attempted evolutionary model","authors":"Andrea Borsato, André Lorentz","doi":"10.1007/s00191-023-00837-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-023-00837-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Evolutionary Economics","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135254739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Banking diversity and firms’ exit: A study on Italian data","authors":"Giuseppina Damiana Costanzo, Marianna Succurro, Francesco Trivieri","doi":"10.1007/s00191-023-00836-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-023-00836-4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract With Italian data, this paper investigates the role of institutional banking diversity on firms’ exit. Using the Gini–Simpson index, a measure of biodiversity drawn from ecological sciences, we find that banking diversity would have reduced firms’ exit rates in the period under investigation (2009–2020), and such a beneficial effect appears sharper for the years of the last financial–sovereign crisis. Both of these findings seem to support the “biodiversity argument” pioneered by Ayadi et al. (2009, 2010), stating that – beyond the merits of any particular bank institutional model – it is indeed the coexistence of a mix of different credit institutions that matters in favouring the financing of the real economy, especially in a scenario characterized by financial turmoil and uncertainty. As a policy recommendation, authorities should promote regulations that, avoiding bias towards a specific bank model, aim to preserve and promote biodiversity in the banking sector.","PeriodicalId":47757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Evolutionary Economics","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}