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Human capital and innovation in East and West German manufacturing firms

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1997

The paper analyses the theoretical and empirical relationship between employment, skill structure and innovation in East and West German manufacturing firms. The econometric part builds on firm data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel 1993, 1994 and 1995. In the German industrial sector,...

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Innovation, labour demand and wages in Poland: Some introductory results using micro-macro data

Walewski, Mateusz - 2009

There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most of the results indicating positive effects. Thus far, this kind of analysis has not been performed for Poland and it seems to be an important and interesting field for...

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A Theory of Technology Diffusion

Mukoyama, Toshihiko - EconWPA - 2003

What determines the speed of the technology diffusion? What are the consequences of diffusion? This paper presents a model to address these questions. Skilled machine-users adopt a new technology first, while unskilled users wait until machines become more reliable and accessible. The quality...

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Innovation, Labour Demand and Wages in Poland : Some Introductory Results Using Micro-Macro Data

Walewski, Mateusz - 2013

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Inequality, Trade and Defensive Innovation in the USA

Anderton, Robert; Oscarson, Eva - 2003

This paper investigates the reasons behind this rise in inequality in the United States during the early 80's by … inequality in low-skill-intensive sectors, while technological change (proxied by R&D expenditure) explains the rise in … inequality in high-skill-intensive sectors. However, we also find that increased trade with high-wage countries had an indirect …

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Localized and Biased Technologies : Atrkinson and Stiglitz's New View, Induced Innovations, and Directed Technological Change

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

This paper revisits the important ideas proposed by Atkinson and Stiglitz's seminal 1969 paper on technological change. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological change literature, it explains how these three...

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Machines Could Not Compete with Chinese Labor : Evidence from U.S. Firms’ Innovation

Bena, Jan - 2019

We study how an improvement in contracting institutions due to the 1999 U.S.-China bilateral agreement affects U.S. firms' innovation. We show that U.S. firms operating in China decrease their process innovations—innovations that improve firms' own production methods—following the agreement....

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The Power of the Little Blue Pill : Innovations and Implications of Life Style Drugs in an Aging Population

LaRiviere, Jacob S. - 2014

The launch of Viagra in April 1998 led to a historically unprecedented high usage of erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs. We test whether Viagra's introduction significantly influenced outcomes for its target population such as STD rates of older men, as well as its non-target populations, such as...

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Protect or Prevent? Non-Compete Agreements and Innovation

Rockall, Emma; Reinmuth, Kate - 2023

A large proportion of the US workforce is covered by non-compete agreements (NCAs), but recently their use has become one of intense policy debate, with the FTC recently proposing to ban them. In this paper, we examine what effect such a policy change might be expected to have on innovation, and...

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Government Spending Composition, Technical Change and Wage Inequality

Cozzi, Guido - 2009

hit the U.S. economy in the late 1970s and in the 1980s, as well as the simultaneous increase in inequality and in … increase in wage inequality in the period 1976-91 …

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