It is increasingly evident that the direction of technological change responds to economic
incentives. We review the literature on directed technical change in the context of …

Poverty remains a pervasive and complex phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part of the
agenda in recent years to tackle poverty in Africa has been the launching of social safety …

We present a framework that can be used to assess the equilibrium impact of regulation on
endogenous innovation with heterogeneous firms. We implement this model using French …

Currently, the governments of many countries are facing with a lack of funds for financing
programs for social protection of population. Among the causes of this problem, we can …

This study investigates the effect of political promotion incentives on the labor investment
efficiency of firms by focusing on human capital misallocation. We show that 1) promotion …

While adoption of new technologies is understood to enhance long-term growth and
average per-capita incomes, its impact on lower-skilled workers is more complex and merits …

This article exploits changes in country-level employment protection regulations as a source
of plausibly exogenous variation in labor laws and finds that these regulations play an …

Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff's now classic 1984 book What Do Unions Do?
stimulated an enormous theoretical and empirical literature on the economic impact of trade …

The impact of robotization on labor market outcomes has been recently empirically
investigated along several directions, including employment, wages and labor productivity …

Do higher wages lead to more automation innovation? To answer this question, we first
introduce a new measure of automation by using the frequency of certain keywords in patent …