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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

cross-country evidence points to productivity benefits of education that are at least as large as those identified by labour …This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on … clarify where empirical work on education using macro data may be relatively useful. It is argued that on balance, the recent …