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Workplace Segregation between College and Non-college Workers
Dillon, Francis M.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
We measure the level and growth of education segregation in American workplaces from 2000 to 2020. American workplaces show an educational segregation, measured by the degree to which the establishment has mostly workers of similar education levels, that is comparable to racial residential...
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The next wave of energy innovation : which technologies? Which skills?
Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Grégoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - 2022
innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid integration of intermittent … innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the need for complementary innovation in both physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337365
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The Next Wave of Energy Innovation: Which Technologies? Which Skills?
Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Grégoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - 2022
innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid integration of intermittent … innovation and discuss the lessons learnt for policy. We then discuss the need for complementary innovation in both physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427664
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Ethnic innovation and US multinational firm activity
Foley, C. Fritz; Kerr, William R. - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 59 (2013) 7, pp. 1529-1544
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Agglomeration and innovation
Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William R. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413297
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Should we give up after Solyndra? : optimal technology R&D portfolios under uncertainty
Webster, Mort; Fisher-Vanden, Karen; Popp, David; … - 2015
Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...
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Innovation network
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876795
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
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Innovation network
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016
linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557905
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Immigration policy levers for U.S. : innovation and startups
Kerr, William R.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2020
reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …
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