attracted to dense areas, which improve their learning from others. If the skills accumulated in cities are easily transferable … rather than specificity of skills. Small firms thrived, and therefore the transferability of skills increased. The model also …

information. -- minimum wages ; unemployment ; asymmetric information ; labour market regulation …

We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi …-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium …-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

of relative wages. However, it is hard to estimate because skill supply is endogenous. We tackle the task by using …

We analyze the impact of international R&D spillovers on recipient countries in terms of social and private returns. We … Productivity. We endogenize the accrual of the R&D stocks by estimating an R&D investment function. We find that the marginal …&D intensive countries are expected to generate more spillovers at the margin, but the observed R&D stock is smaller than the …

We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …

wage bin throughout the monthly wage distribution. We find that, after one month, wages increased by 17 to 37 percent for …