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Climate Change Mitigation Strategies in Fast-Growing Countries : The Benefits of Early Action
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2021
investment behaviour is to anticipate the implementation of a climate policy by roughly 10 years. Investing in innovation ahead …. This is especially relevant for China, whose recent and foreseeable trends of investments in innovation are consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316333
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016812
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Has Job Polarization Squeezed the Middle Class? Evidence from the Allocation of Talents
Boehm, Michael J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
Over the last two decades, earnings in the United States increased at the top and at the bottom of the wage distribution but not in the middle - the intensely debated middle class squeeze. At the same time there was a substantial decline of employment in middle-skill production and clerical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652266
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Innovation Network
Acemoglu, Daron - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977470
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Human Capital Formation and Global Warming Mitigation : Evidence from an Integrated Assessment Model
Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica; Tavoni, Massimo - 2021
Based on recent empirical evidence, this paper includes human capital and knowledge in an integrated assessment model … and it assesses the interplay between innovation, human capital, climate change, and education policies. Results indicate … that climate policy stimulates a dedicated form of energy-knowledge without reducing generic R&D investments. Since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316280
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What Should We Expect from Innovation? A Model-Based Assessment of the Environmental and Mitigation Cost Implications of Climate-Related R&D
Bosetti, Valentina - 2013
This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can … innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies … technical progress in the energy sector. We evaluate a range of innovation policies, both as a stand-alone instrument and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094894
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655943
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Human Capital Formation and Global Warming Mitigation: Evidence from an Integrated Assessment Model
Carraro, Carlo; Cian, Enrica De; Tavoni, Massimo - CESifo - 2009
Based on recent empirical evidence, this paper includes human capital and knowledge in an integrated assessment model … and it assesses the interplay between innovation, human capital, climate change, and education policies. Results indicate … that climate policy stimulates a dedicated form of energy-knowledge without reducing generic R&D investments. Since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572586