We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of … scientific publications, in a panel of 20 European countries. Skilled migrants positively contribute to the knowledge formation … associated with higher levels of knowledge creation, measured either by the number of patents applied for through the Patent …

We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began … of laser knowledge was especially prevalent in large agglomerations. While we cannot detect knowledge spillovers from … research later, indicating the accumulation of knowledge generated in previous periods. Our results highlight the role of a …

drive innovation. …

closely connected with changing knowledge and property rights. The internationalization of markets as a consequence of …