The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and …

In this paper, we describe the historical co-evolution of innovation and economic growth in Germany since 1871. The … country's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century, through its innovation and entrepreneurial performance, is … nevertheless a period during which innovation went into relative decline. We document this decline and offer four broad …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

This paper assesses the effect of import competition on the labor market and health outcomes of US workers. We first …

manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage …

We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration …. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its accession to the WTO in 2001, across … Mexican municipalities and estimate the effect of international competition on the individual decision to migrate. Controlling …

. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local labor markets based on their industrial …

clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of …