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Minimum Wages and On-the-Job Training
Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
Becker's theory of human capital predicts that minimum wages should reduce training investments for affected workers because they prevent these workers from taking wage cuts necessary to finance training. In contrast, in noncompetitive labor markets, minimum wages tend to increase training of...
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Innovation Network
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016
linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …
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Radical and incremental innovation : the roles of firms, managers, and innovators
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Çelik, Murat Alp - In: American economic journal 14 (2022) 3, pp. 199-249
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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
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