Article history: Accepted 26 September 2010 JEL classification: O31 O33 O41

Article history: Received 14 August 2007 Revised 8 July 2008 Available online 23 August 2008 JEL classification: J61 J64 E24 P23 R11 O33

Article history: Received 25 November 2013 Received in revised form 17 June 2015 Available online 13 July 2015 JEL classification: O33 O31 E22

How to determine how much and what produce? This is one of the great unknowns in economics. paper proposes study recipes offered by conventional economics, keynesian Economics, Austrian school questioning use assumptions mathematical tools. In addition, we will analyze concept dynamic efficiency, which provides a contribution debate. The importance analyzing various focuses on highlight that mi...

How does rural-urban migration shape urban production in developing countries? We use longitudinal data on Chinese manufacturing firms between 2000 and 2006, exploit exogenous variation induced by agricultural income shocks for identification. find that, when immigration increases, becomes more labor intensive productivity declines. investigate the reorganization of using patent applications pr...

We build an endogenous growth model with automation (the replacement of low-skill workers machines) and horizontal innovation creation new products). Over time, the share innovations endogenously increases through increase in wages, leading to skill premium a decline labor share. calibrate US economy show that it quantitatively replicates paths premium, share, productivity. Our offers perspecti...

New technologies have allowed …rms to monitor low-skill workers more closely, thus reducing the power of these workers. We show that this ’power-biased change’may generate rising wage inequality and increases in the work intensity and unemployment of low-skill workers. JEL numbers: J31, O33

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...

This paper provides a unified framework for quantifying the cross-country and cross-sector interactions among trade, innovation, knowledge diffusion. is used to study effect of trade liberalization in an endogenous growth model which comparative advantage stock are determined by innovation The calibrated match observed heterogeneity production, efficiency, spillovers. counterfactual analysis sh...

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. ...