This paper develops an endogenous growth model that incorporates a frictional inventor market and examines the allocation of inventors across firms, knowledge diffusion, and its impact on growth. In our model, inventors play dual roles: they engage in in-house R&D and transfer knowledge from...

This article aims to study the Solow-Pasinetti debate on the aggregate production function and technical progress as an event that anticipated a divide in the subsequent theories of economic growth and technical change. Ultimately, the debate manifests two completely different approaches, not...

Firms in developed countries face increasing shortages of young workers. This paper studies the importance of young workers, particularly vocational trainees, for firm technology investments. Leveraging exogenous variation in trainee supply caused by an education reform in Germany in 2001, I...