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Has technology hurt less skilled workers? : an econometric survey of the effects of technical change on the structure of pay and jobs
Chennells, Lucy; Van Reenen, John - 1999
computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537983
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Chapter 65 Microeconometric Models of Investment and Employment
Bond, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - In: Handbook of econometrics : volume 6A, (pp. 4417-4498). 2007
We survey recent microeconometric research on investment and employment that has used panel data on individual firms or … theory of the demand for capital and labour, on which most of the econometric models of investment and employment that we … topics that have been the focus of recent microeconometric research on investment and employment. In particular, we review …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024950
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Technology and Changes in Skill Structure: Evidence from an International Panel of Industries
Machin, Steve; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
, the United Kingdom and the United States. The analysis of changes in wage bill shares and employment shares of more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124191
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Trade induced technical change? The impact of Chinese imports on innovation, IT and productivity
Bloom, Nicholas; Draca, Mirko; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
to increases in R&D, patenting, IT and TFP within firms; and second it reallocated employment between firms towards more … in employment, profits, prices and the skill share. By contrast, import competition from developed countries had no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854502
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Getting the unemployed back to work : the role of targeted wage subsidies
Bell, Brian; Blundell, Richard W.; Van Reenen, John - 1999
This paper examines alternative approaches to wage subsidy programmes. It does this in the context of a recent active labour market reform for the young unemployed in Britain. This "New Deal" reform and the characteristics of the target group are examined in detail. We discuss theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538460
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How special is the special relationship? Using the impact of US R&D spillovers on UK firms as a test of technology sourcing
Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Van Reenen, John - 2004
How much does US-based R&D benefit other countries and through what mechanisms? We test the 'technology sourcing' hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using panels of UK and US firms matched to patent data we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293047
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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Lucking, Brian; … - 2017
What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653434
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What Drives Differences in Management?
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653452
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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-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis with career-concerns, where institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272476
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Management as a Technology?
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494359