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Designing Women : Consumer Goods Innovations in Britain, France and the United States, 1750-1900
Khan, B. Zorina - 2017
women's creativity within the nonmarket household sector and outside the patent system. The analysis distinguishes between … improvements in consumer final goods, changes in designs, and other forms of technological creativity. The results indicate that …'s creativity in terms of a "gender difference" rather than a "gender gap" might yield useful analytical insights. A general …
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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
patent) and creativity (fraction of superstar innovators, the likelihood of a very high number of citations, and generality …
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Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry : Early Evidence from Open Banking
Babina, Tania; Bahaj, Saleem; Buchak, Greg; De Marco, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Open banking (OB) empowers bank customers to share transaction data with fintechs and other banks. 49 countries have adopted OB policies. Consumer trust in fintechs predicts OB policy adoption and adoption spurs investment in fintechs. UK microdata shows that OB enables: i) consumers to access...
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Age at Immigrant Arrival and Career Mobility : Evidence from Vietnamese Refugee Migration and the Amerasian Homecoming Act
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Smith, Kendall E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....
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U.S. Worker Mobility Across Establishments within Firms : Scope, Prevalence, and Effects on Worker Earnings
Carballo, Jeronimo; Mansfield, Richard; Pfander, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Multi-establishment firms account for around 60% of U.S. workers' primary employers, providing ample opportunity for workers to change their work location without changing their employer. Using U.S. matched employer-employee data, this paper analyzes workers' access to and use of such...
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Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?
Blair, Peter Q.; Chung, Bobby W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric--making unlicensed workers an illegal substitute for licensed workers but not the reverse. We test our hypothesis using a difference-in-differences event study research design...
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Surviving the U.S. Import Market : The Role of Product Differentiation
Besedes, Tibor - 2004
We examine the extent that product differentiation affects the duration of US import trade relationships. Applying nonparametric and semiparametric techniques to highly disaggregated product-level data we estimate that the hazard rate is at least 18 percent higher for homogenous goods than for...
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Entry, Pricing and Product Design in an Initially Monopolized Market
Davis, Steven J. - 2001
We analyze entry, pricing and product design in a model with differentiated products. Under plausible conditions, entry into an initially monopolized market leads to higher prices for some, possibly all, consumers. Entry can induce a misallocation of goods to consumers, segment the market in a...
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Policies for Green Design
Fullerton, Don - 1996
We analyze alternative policies such as a disposal content fee, a subsidy for recyclable designs, unit pricing of household disposal, a deposit-refund system, and a manufacturer `take-back' requirement. In order to identify the problem being addressed, we build a simple general equilibrium model...
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Quality Ladders and Product Cycles
Grossman, Gene M. - 1989
We develop a two-country model of endogenous innovation and imitation in order to study the interactions between these two processes. Firms in the North race to bring out the next generation of a set of technology-intensive products. Each product potentially can be improved a countably infinite...
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