protection laws. In contrast to the findings for employment, we find little evidence for a relationship between wages and …

' earnings impact property crime with an elasticity of -1, but that wages have no impact on violent crime. The paper also … instrumenting real wages of young workers. Using state-year-industry specific technology shocks as instruments yields elasticities …

such models in analyzing the production structure, the determinants of variable and quasi-fixed factors, and productivity … growth. The paper also discusses the traditional approach to productivity analysis based on the Divisia index number … on the structure of production, the dynamics of investment in physical and R&D capital, the effects of spillovers, the …

generate R&D capital spillovers. A spillover network of senders and receivers is estimated. The network shows that each … the receivers, spillovers generally expand product markets, lower product prices, increase production costs and input … demands. For the sources, significant R&D spillovers cause the social rates of return to R&D capital to be substantially above …

notion of technological proximity of firms is developed in order to quantify potential R&D spillovers. The importance of the … position variables and the potential spilover pool in explaining R&D intensity, patent productivity and TFP growth is explored … effects are significant in explaining patent productivity. I cannot distinguish between the two effects in explaining TFP …

.S. economy. The rationale is that IT may speed up the process of knowledge transfer and make these knowledge spillovers more … suggest a strengthening of R&D spillovers between the 1958-1987 and 1987-2007 periods. A decomposition of TFP growth also … indicates a higher contribution from R&D spillovers in the later period. These results suggest a strengthening of the R …

firm survey from the 1840s, we shed light on the mechanism: upper-tail knowledge raised productivity in innovative …