We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production … in China. Our empirical approach implements concepts developed in Acemoglu (2010) and complements the approaches … summarized by Wei, Xie, and Zhang (2017) that focus on directly observable aspects of innovation (R&D, patent activity, etc …

. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and …In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly … impact of network use on wages. Using job contacts brings open access to urban employment, but at the cost of markedly lower …

natural exogenous variation in network formation induced by the land occupation movement and the agrarian reform. By using …

structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for …

Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades …, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth … technological innovation to raise labor productivity. This paper identifies three reasons why technological innovation has become …