immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting zones to respond to manufacturing job loss caused by import competition …. Because most U.S. immigrants arrived in the country after manufacturing regions were already mature, few took up jobs in …

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 …

, along with a more complex set of innovation incentives. This chapter presents background on medical device regulation … adverse events and recalls), and concludes with a discussion of the implications of regulation for innovation incentives in …

employment growth. Then, we analyze whether local factors associated in the previous literature with agglomeration economies and …

&D spending. Our results demonstrate that public R&D conducted by NASA contractors increased manufacturing value added, employment …We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War era …

employment of R&D workers, extending to ICT and other techies. In non-manufacturing firms, the impact of techies on productivity …-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion within firms. Using … manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this effect goes beyond the …

the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and that, through input-output linkages and other general equilibrium …-level approaches to estimate the size of (a) employment losses in directly exposed manufacturing industries, (b) employment effects in …