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Productivity Gains from Unemployment Insurance

Acemoglu, Daron; Shimer, Robert - 2021

This paper argues that unemployment insurance increases labor productivity by encouraging workers to seek higher … productivity jobs, and by encouraging firms to create those jobs. We use a quantitative general equilibrium model to investigate …

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Productivity Differences

Acemoglu, Daron; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2021

these tasks are designed to be used by skilled workers, productivity in the LDCs will be low. Even when all countries have … factor productivity and output per worker. Our theory also suggests that productivity differences should be highest in medium … effect on the direction of technical change and on productivity differences …

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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

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Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A.; … - In: Journal of monetary economics 56 (2009) 8, pp. 1043-1058

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Disease and Development : The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon - 2022

based on the pre-intervention distribution of mortality from various diseases around the world and dates of global …

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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - 2014

Thomas Piketty's (2014) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...

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Democracy Does Cause Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Naidu, Suresh; Restrepo, Pascual; … - 2014

We provide evidence that democracy has a significant and robust positive effect on GDP. Our empirical strategy relies on a dichotomous measure of democracy coded from several sources to reduce measurement error and controls for country fixed effects and the rich dynamics of GDP, which otherwise...

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Institutions, Human Capital and Development

Acemoglu, Daron; Gallego, Francisco A.; Robinson, James A. - 2016

In this paper we revisit the relationship between institutions, human capital and development. We argue that empirical models that treat institutions and human capital as exogenous are misspecified both because of the usual omitted variable bias problems and because of differential measurement...

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Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A.; … - 2021

explain diverging development paths within the former colonial world …

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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development : An Empirical Investigation

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A. - 2021

We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. The choice of...

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