We empirically analyse the response of US manufacturing labour market variables to various shocks, notably to trade openness and technology. The econometric approach involves an application of the recently developed global VAR (GVAR) methodology of D¶ees, DiMauro, Pesaran, and Smith (2005) to...

An increasingly influential technological-discontinuity paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited...

We investigate the relationship between the location of private sector R&D labs and university research departments in Great Britain. We combine establishment-level data on R&D activity with information on levels and changes in research quality from the Research Assessment Exercise. The...

Der inter- und intranationale Standortwettbewerb um Investoren ist in den letzten Jahren stärker geworden. Zur Identifizierung der bei einer Standortwahl zentralen Entscheidungskriterien hat das ifo Institut eine Unternehmensbefragung bei deutschen und ausländischen Muttergesellschaften...