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Growth and Development: A Schumpeterian Approach
Aghion, Philippe - In: Annals of Economics and Finance 5 (2004) 1, pp. 1-25
In this paper we present the so-called Schumpeterian approach to economic growth, in which growth is primarily driven by entrepreneurial innovations that are themselves influenced by the institutional environment. We argue that this more micro-founded approach both, questions the old divisions...
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Parental Education and Invention : The Finnish Enigma
Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Hyytinen, Ari; … - 2023
Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find that: (i) the positive association between parental income...
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Patent rights, product market reforms, and innovation
Aghion, Philippe; Howitt, Peter; Prantl, Susanne - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729854
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Patent Rights, Product Market Reforms, and Innovation
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this … paper, we address this question by investigating how innovation responses to a substantial policy initiative increasing … product market competition interact with the strength of patent rights. We provide empirical evidence of innovation responding …
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Patent Rights, Product Market Reforms, and Innovation
Aghion, Philippe - 2013
Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this … paper, we address this question by investigating how innovation responses to a substantial policy initiative increasing … product market competition interact with the strength of patent rights. We provide empirical evidence of innovation responding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459807
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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; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469469
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480685
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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth
Aghion, Philippe; Askenazy, Philippe; Bourlès, Renaud; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities andemployment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECDcountries...
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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth
Aghion, Philippe - 2010
This paper investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP...
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