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Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Building on recent advances in the literature on knowledge creation and innovation (notably Carnehl and Schneider (2025 …

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Gender Inequality in the Labor Market : Continuing Progress?

Blau, Francine D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This article examines the trends in women's economic outcomes in the United States focusing primarily on labor force participation, occupational attainment, and the gender wage gap. The author first highlights considerable progress on all dimensions prior to the 1990s followed by a slowing or...

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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …

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Political Sentiment and Innovation : Evidence from Patenters

Engelberg, Joseph; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We document political sentiment effects on US inventors. Democratic inventors are more likely to patent (relative to Republicans) after the 2008 election of Obama but less likely after the 2016 election of Trump. These effects are 2-3 times as strong among politically active partisans and are...

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The Next Wave of Energy Innovation : Which Technologies? Which Skills?

Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Gregoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

of low-carbon energy innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid … document recent trends in energy innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the potential role for … complementary innovation in both physical capital--using smart grids as an example of how policy can help--and human capital, where …

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Distorted Innovation : Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?

Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …

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Transformative and Subsistence Entrepreneurs : Origins and Impacts on Economic Growth

Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Pearce, Jeremy; Prato, Marta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

education, innovation, and entrepreneurship to foster transformative businesses and achieve long-run economic growth … with higher IQ and education levels, significantly drive R&D and business growth, thereby providing substantial …. Our economic model links these dynamics to overall economic progress, highlighting how higher education influences career …

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Capital and Wages

Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Does capital accumulation increase labor demand and wages? Neoclassical production functions, where capital and labor are q-complements, ensure that the answer is yes, so long as labor markets are competitive. This result critically depends on the assumption that capital accumulation does not...

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Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth

Hanushek, Eric A. - 1995

Human capital is almost always identified as a crucial ingredient for growing economies, but empirical investigations of cross-national growth have done little to clarify the dimensions of relevant human capital or any implications for policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor...

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Entrepreneurship and the Gig Economy : Evidence from U.S. Tax Returns

Denes, Matthew R.; Lagaras, Spyridon; Tsoutsoura, Margarita - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Platform intermediation of goods and services has considerably transformed the U.S. economy. We use administrative data on U.S. tax returns to study the role of the gig economy on entrepreneurship. We find that gig workers are more likely to become entrepreneurs, particularly those who are lower...

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