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OECD labor markets have become more “polarized” with employment in the middle of the skill distribution falling relative to the top and (in recent years) also the bottom of the skill distribution. We test the hypothesis of Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003) that this is partly due to...
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This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
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innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
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This paper examines the impact of technological innovation on wages using a panel of UK manufacturing firms. We utilize …. Innovating firms are found to have higher average wages, but rival innovation tends to depress own wages. This appears consistent … with a model where wages are partly determined by a sharing in the rents generated by innovation. In other words innovation …
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sectors (inter-sectoral spillovers), or at the international level. We find that innovation is strongly driven by knowledge … innovative activity with a special emphasis on the role of knowledge spillovers. We investigate two major renewable energy … spillovers, especially those occurring at the national level. Wind and solar technologies exhibit distinct innovation …
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produced at least one major innovation at any time in the United Kingdom from 1945–82. Both datasets yield the same conclusion …
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This Paper surveys the economic literature on the impact of trade unions on innovation. There are many theoretical … routes through which unions may have an effect on innovation, for example through their effects on relative factor prices …&D, innovation, technological diffusion and productivity growth. North American results find consistently strong and negative impacts …
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This paper investigates the impact of innovation on employment using a panel of UK manufacturing firms and a headcount … bargaining models. It also argues that the innovation effect can be used to distinguish between shirking models and union … bargains. Innovation is found to have positive effect on company employment raising it by 9--12% in the short run and up to 40 …
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We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …
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Using a balanced panel of 215 Italian manufacturing firms over the 1995-2000 period, thispaper investigates the determinants of R&D investment at the level of the firm. While findingfurther support for the well-established technology-push and demand-pull hypotheses, thisstudy also tests the role...
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