innovation. We first establish a positive and significant correlation between various measures of innovativeness and top income … in the top 1% income share between 1975 and 2010. Finally, we show that innovation does not increase broader measures of … inequality which do not focus on top incomes, and that innovation is positively correlated with social mobility, but less so in …

Market to ensure freer trade and perhaps to create an egalitarian Europe. The post-1993 period saw the biggest enlargement of … had happened in the EU. Our study makes a humble attempt to shed light on the role of trade (both intra-EU and EU versus … trade openness and government expenditure did contribute to per capita income convergence in the EU during the period of our …

play a role in the contemporaneous evolution of innovation in a broad cross section of countries today. Our results …, while home grown innovation is more sensitive to internal structural and institutional factors …

This paper develops a quantitative, multi-country model of endogenous growth, international trade, and international … knowledge flows in order to understand how access to both foreign products and technologies, together, influences innovation … about and applying research previously conducted abroad. The effect of trade barriers on the level and dispersion of income …

are complements to machines and low-skilled workers are substitutes for machines. The model predicts that innovation …