productivity and human capital investments. Using light intensity as an alternative measure for economic activity confirms the …

innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labour has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer … to the technological frontier under the reasonable assumption that innovation is a relatively more skill intensive … the two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves …

productivity. Education as well as innovation and production require skilled labour as inputs. This and the fact that learning … study the impact of changes in the education of workers and the incentives to innovate. Lower profits imply lower growth … redistribution. Subsidization of education increases employment and growth. Redistribution through the tax and benefit system or …

future of innovation? First-rate inventions in the 1990s, notably the web and user-friendly business productivity software …Productivity growth in the United States was considerably faster during 2000-03 than in the boom years of 1995 …-2000. This ebullient productivity performance raises numerous questions about its interpretation and its implications for the …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …

study the effect of a net neutrality regulation on capacity investments in the market for Internet access, and on innovation … capacity and content innovation are both higher than under net neutrality. Total welfare increases, though the discriminatory …

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

Analysis of the contribution of education to growth through its role in promoting a common culture indicates that when …

financially support public education that would sustain their profit rates and would improve their economic well being, although …