Research Papers

• New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940—2018

  By David Autor, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons, Bryan Seegmiller
  
  Technological change transforms economies and labor markets, reshaping the types of jobs that are available, the wages they pay, and the skills they require.

• Perpetuating Wage Inequality: Evidence from Salary History Bans

  By James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng
  
  A recent paper “Perpetuating Wage Inequality: Evidence from Salary History Bans” published in the Journal of Economic Inequality by scholars from TPRI (James Bessen, Erich Denk, and Chen Meng) has influenced policy.

• Research and/or Development? Financial Frictions and Innovation Investment

  By Filippo Mezzanotti and Timothy Simcoe
  
  In a new Working Paper, TPRI affiliates Filippo Mezzanotti and Timothy Simcoe study how firms shifted the composition of their R&D investments during the 2008 financial crisis.

• Marketing and Economic Growth

  By Leo Sveikauskas
  
  Firms are increasingly investing in marketing activities; marketing assets are becoming an important component of firm capital. But how much do these investments contribute to economic growth?

• Digitalization is not gender-neutral

  By Sabrina Genz and Claus Schnabel
  
  Although numerous studies have investigated the aggregate employment effects of automation and digitalization, relatively little is known about the effects at the level of individual workers and along the gender dimension.

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