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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK
Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …
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Political Sentiment and Innovation : Evidence from Patenters
Engelberg, Joseph; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document political sentiment effects on US inventors. Democratic inventors are more likely to patent (relative to Republicans) after the 2008 election of Obama but less likely after the 2016 election of Trump. These effects are 2-3 times as strong among politically active partisans and are...
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Distorted Innovation : Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226119
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The Next Wave of Energy Innovation : Which Technologies? Which Skills?
Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Gregoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
of low-carbon energy innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid … document recent trends in energy innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the potential role for … complementary innovation in both physical capital--using smart grids as an example of how policy can help--and human capital, where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361997
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Capital and Wages
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Does capital accumulation increase labor demand and wages? Neoclassical production functions, where capital and labor are q-complements, ensure that the answer is yes, so long as labor markets are competitive. This result critically depends on the assumption that capital accumulation does not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512044
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Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth
Hanushek, Eric A. - 1995
Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473468
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New technologies, organizational change and the skill bias: what do we know?
Caroli, Eve - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706802
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L’organisation du travail dans la tourmente
Bienaymé, Alain - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
La dégradation du marché du travail, importante en Europe, plus récente aux Etats-Unis, n’est ni purement conjoncturelle, ni propre aux seules économies développées. Des mouvements contrastés affectent au Nord comme au Sud les salaires et les emplois, en nombre et en qualité. Les...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011073138
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Profils types des salariés du secteur privé : approche par une classification des carrières
Briard, Karine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007
Private-sector employees follow highly varied career paths. To reduce this diversity, we cluster employees by means of a classification of their career profiles. The shifts in the representativeness of the clusters between the 1935 and 1960 birth cohorts illustrate several changes in the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011073386
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Informal versus Formal: A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Madagascar
Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Rakotomanana, Faly; Roubaud, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
addressing heterogeneity issues at three different levels: the worker, the job (wage employment vs. selfemployment) and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074340