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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2024

Matched employee-employer data from the UK are used to investigate the importance of social skills, in particular team-work and communication with co-workers, as a driver of wage growth for workers with lower formal education. We find that in social skills tasks, workers enjoy greater wage...

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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2023

We use matched employee-employer data from the UK to highlight the importance of social skills, including the ability to work well in a team and communicate effectively with co-workers, as a driver for individual wage growth for workers with few formal educational qualifications. We show that...

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Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Lelarge, Claire; Van … - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007

This paper analyzes the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the other hand, delegates authority to...

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Innovation and institutional ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Van Reenen, John; Zingales, Luigi - 2010

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to … be due to endogenous selection. -- Career Concerns ; Innovation ; Institutional Ownership ; Productivity and R&D …

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The environment and directed technical change

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Bursztyn, Leonardo; … - 2010

dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both “carbon taxes” and research subsidies, so that excessive … creates environmental degradation. Research can be directed to improving the technology of machines in either sector. We … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values …

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The relationship between health and growth : when Lucas meets Nelson-Phelps

Aghion, Philippe; Howitt, Peter; Murtin, Fabrice - 2010

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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change : evidence from the auto industry

Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hémous, David - 2012

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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