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Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
In many growth models, economic growth arises from people creating ideas, and the long-run growth rate is the product of two terms: the effective number of researchers and their research productivity. We present a wide range of evidence from various industries, products, and firms showing that...
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Working from Home Around the World
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2022
innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426389
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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461940
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Modern Management : Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2008
We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better managed firms are significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464253
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Competition and Innovation : An Inverted U Relationship
Aghion, Philippe - 2002
This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A growth model is … reduce innovation incentives for laggards. There are four key predictions. First, the relationship between product market … competition (PMC) and innovation is an inverted U-shape. Second, the equilibrium degree of technological neck-and-neckness' among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469440
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Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms …, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional trapped factor effect. Starting from a baseline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458713
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Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space
Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter John; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art languageprocessing framework that we fit, test, and refine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296724
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The Evolution of Work from Home
Barrero, José María; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - 2023
discuss some implications of the big shift for pay, productivity, and the pace of innovation. Over the next five years, U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377339
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Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space
Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art language-processing framework that we fit, test, and refine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247927
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The Evolution of Work from Home
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
discuss some implications of the big shift for pay, productivity, and the pace of innovation. Over the next five years, U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372443