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Wage Inequality,Technology and Trade: 21st Century Evidence

Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

This paper describes and explains some of the principal trends in the wage and skill distribution in recent decades. There have been sharp increases in wage inequality across the OECD, beginning with the US and UK at the end of the 1970s. A good fraction of this inequality growth is due to...

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Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over 25 Years

Michaels, Guy; Natraj, Ashwini; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

OECD labor markets have become more "polarized" with employment in the middle of the skill distribution falling relative to the top and (in recent years) also the bottom of the skill distribution. We test the hypothesis of Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003) that this is partly due to information...

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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

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Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth

Bloom, Nicholas; Romer, Paul; Terry, Stephen; Reenen, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated … inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional "trapped factor" effect. Starting …

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In brief: Two cheers for Anglo-Saxon financial markets?

Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

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The impact of corporate governance practices on R&D efforts: a look at shareholders’ rights, cross-listing and control pyramid.

Lhuillery, Stéphane - Chaire en Économie et Management de l'Innovation … - 2006

The paper considers the impact of multiple shareholder-oriented governance practices on R&D decisions. Based on a sample of 5,713 firms belonging to 110 large French listed business groups, our results substantiate the idea that shareholder-oriented governance practices and a lower position in a...

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European mechanical companies: Technological differences and organisational similarities

Lhuillery, Stéphane; Avadikyan, Arman - Chaire en Économie et Management de l'Innovation … - 2006

All in all, French, Italian and British companies are surpassed technologically more often than not by Swiss, Austrian and German companies. This technological delay does however not show up at the organisational level.

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Northern and Southern Innovativity: A comparison across European and Latin-American countries

Raffo, Julio; Lhuillery, Stéphane; Miotti, Luis - Chaire en Économie et Management de l'Innovation … - 2007

This paper compares the role of innovation and economic performance across European and Latin American countries, using … linking R&D intensity, innovation and productivity. We find evidences revealing structural differences between regions, but … also presence of heterogeneity within regions. In particular, firms tend to face innovation activities to achieve a better …

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Measuring the Cost Effectiveness of an R&D Tax Credit for the UK

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001

effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …

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Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

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