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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …

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Parental Education and Invention : The Finnish Enigma

Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Hyytinen, Ari; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find that: (i) the positive association between parental income...

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International Trade and Innovation

Akcigit, Ufuk; Melitz, Marc J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model that features many of those mechanisms that connect trade and … innovation. It features the joint selection of firms into innovation and international market participation (in our model, we … for innovation …

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Where Have All the "Creative Talents" Gone? Employment Dynamics of US Inventors

Akcigit, Ufuk; Goldschlag, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

entrant or incumbent firm. If the inventor works for the entrant the innovation is implemented and the entrant displaces the …

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A Year Older, A Year Wiser (and Farther from Frontier) : Invention Rents and Human Capital Depreciation

Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Hyytinen, Ari; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We look at how the arrival of an invention affects wage returns and probability of moving out of employment for white- and blue-collar coworkers of the inventor. First results suggest that older workers are hurt by the arrival of an invention. This negative effect disappears when we control for...

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