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Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …

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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution : Evidence from France

Garicano, Luis - 2013

We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to bind on firms with exactly 50 or more employees....

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Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over 25 years

Michaels, Guy - 2010

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 information...

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The distinct effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on firm organization

Bloom, Nicholas - 2009

Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the "information" and "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that these have very different effects on the empowerment of employees, and by extension on wage inequality. If...

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