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Explorations of Cumulative Advantage Using Data on French Physicists

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We use a large dataset of approximately 1500 physicists employed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France to investigate the role of cumulative advantage in their publication career. Measuring output by time series of the number of publications and the number of...

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Distance to Which Frontier? Evidence on Productivity Convergence from International Firm-level Data

Bartelsman, Eric J; Haskel, Jonathan; Martin, Ralf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

towards the global frontier country, perhaps due to learning and knowledge spillovers. More recently, studies within countries … are able to benefit from domestic knowledge. …

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Skills, human capital and the plant productivity gap: UK evidence from matched plant, worker and workforce data

Haskel, Jonathan; Hawkes, Denise; Pereira, Sonia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Using two matched plant level skills and productivity datasets for UK manufacturing we document that (i) more productive firms hire more skilled workers: in 2000, plants at the top decile of the TFP distribution (controlling for their four-digit industry) hired workers with, on average, around...

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Skill Shortages, Productivity Growth and Wage Inflation in UK Manufacturing

Haskel, Jonathan; Martin, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

We estimate the impact of skilled and unskilled labour shortages on productivity and wages in the United Kingdom. Skill shortages are higher on average and more variable over the business cycle in the United Kingdom than in comparable economies. Unskilled shortages are comparatively rare, so...

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A Bargaining Model of Farrell Inefficiency

Haskel, Jonathan; Sanchis, Amparo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

An enormous number of empirical papers have estimated technical efficiency, the distance of firms inside a frontier, following the model of Farrell (1957). We propose a theory that explains the distance these empirical papers seek to measure. The theory is based on the idea that workers can...

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Returns to Education: Evidence from UK Twins

Bonjour, Dorothe; Cherkas, Lynn; Haskel, Jonathan; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We use a new sample of UK female identical twins to estimate private economic returns to education. We report findings in three areas. First, we use identical twins, to control for family effects and genetic ability bias, and the education reported by the other twin to control for schooling...

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Innovation and Market Value

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 1999

Recent research on financial market valuation of the knowledge assets of publicly traded firms is surveyed. The … motivation for using a market value equation to price knowledge assets is discussed and the theory behind this equation is … value of the modern manufacturing corporation is strongly related to its knowledge assets, and that patent measures contain …

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Crisis Innovation Policy from World War II to COVID-19

Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount … objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising … distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the U.S. policy response to two crises where innovation was crucial …

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Organizational Frictions and Increasing Returns to Automation : Lessons from AT&T in the Twentieth Century

Feigenbaum, James J.; Gross, Daniel P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised over 50% of its workforce, but in the late 1910s it initiated a decades-long process of automating telephone operation with mechanical call switching--a technology first invented in the 1880s. We...

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The Value of Patents as Indicators of Inventive Activity

Griliches, Zvi - 1986

This paper summarizes a number of studies which use patent data to examine different aspects of technological change. It describes our firm level data set construction effort; reports on the relationship between RLD expenditures and the level of patenting; analyzes the relationship between...

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