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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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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes

Cabane, Charlotte; Clark, Andrew E. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There are many potential channels for this effect, although, as usual, identifying a causal relationship is difficult. We appeal to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map...

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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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Education and Health Knowledge: Evidence from UK Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … of health knowledge. For causal identification we use increases in the UK minimum school leaving age in 1947 (from 14 to … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …

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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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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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