States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

quality, follow-on innovation. Winning a first patent boosts a startup's subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating …

or stifle innovation. Using three distinct sources of variation to identify rising trade exposure, we provide a causal …-level and technology class-level patent production. Accompanying this fall in innovation, global employment, sales …

We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on …

This paper develops a method for joint estimation of both the degree of internal returns to scale and the extent of …