Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with referenc...

We study how opening to trade affects economic growth in a model where heterogeneous firms can adopt new technologies already use by other their home country. characterize the rate using summary statistic of profit distribution: mean-min ratio. Opening increases spread through increased export opportunities and foreign competition, induces more rapid technology adoption, generates faster growth...

Innovation and Employment: A Survey According to the "compensation theory", market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour-saving impact of process innovations. In this paper a critique of this approach is proposed through a detailed survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on the subject. The general conclusion is that – although compensation is always work...

Using new establishment-by-occupation microdata, we show that the use of discretionary wage setting significantly expanded in 1970s and 1980s. Increasingly, wages for blue-collar workers were not standardized by job title or seniority but instead subject to managerial discretion. When establishments abandoned pay rates, fell, particularly lowest-paid a those previously paid above market rates. ...

We propose a new method to estimate and isolate the localization of knowledge spillovers due physical presence person, using after-application but pre-grant deaths differently located coinventors same patent. The approach estimates differences in local citations between deceased still-living inventors at increasingly distant radii. Patents receive 26 percent fewer from within radius 20 miles ar...

The objective of this paper is to present a unifying framework for studying the impact of new collaborative technologies (or consumer technologies) on markets, society and economic science. It aims to influence researchers in social sciences, entrepreneurs and policy-makers to accelerate the adoption of the learning, tools and opportunities which the new collaborative technologies bring into th...

Can targeting information to network-central farmers induce more adoption of a new agricultural technology? By combining social network data and field experiment in 200 villages Malawi, we find that central is important spur the diffusion process. We also provide evidence one explanation for why centrality matters: process governed by complex contagion. Our results are consistent with model whi...

We examine how the adoption of information communication technology affects bilateral trade. The context is a public program in Norway that rolled out broadband access points leading to plausibly exogenous variation availability and by firms. find makes trade patterns more sensitive distance economic size. These results are consistent with model variable elasticity demand. predicts lowers frict...