In this article, we use cross-state panel and cross-US commuting-zone data to look at the
relationship between innovation, top income inequality and social mobility. We find positive …

We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of
firms in the age of automation. Our theory suggests that increasing productivity in automation …

Using administrative employee-firm-level data on the entire private sector from 1994 to
2007, we show that the labor market in France has polarized: employment shares of high …

The paper uses Schumpeter's legacy tools to analyze the specific and distinctive effects of
the rates and directions of technological change on the two distinct ingredients of the income …

Across the developed world, employment has polarized clearly by occupation, but changes
to the wage structure have been harder to interpret. We examine changes to the wage …

We propose a mechanism for labor-market polarization based on the nonhomotheticity of
demand that we call the income-driven channel. Our mechanism builds on a novel empirical …

This paper develops a North-South product-cycle model with innovation and foreign direct
investment (FDI) to analyze the influences from strengthening intellectual property rights …

This paper extends the analysis of the wealth–income ratio based on the neoclassical model
in a Schumpeterian growth framework in which savings are channelled to both tangible and …

Abstract We use The Patents (Amendment) Act, 2002 in India as a quasi-natural experiment
to identify the causal effect of higher incentives for innovation on a firm's compensation …

This paper analyses how differences in the industry composition of British local labour
markets moderate the impact of foreign technological competition in manufacturing on …