US-Europe Differences in Technology-Driven Growth: Quantifying the Role of Education

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Innovation and skill dynamics: a life-cycle approach (2015, background): “See Krueger and Kumar, 2004; Caselli, 1999; Aghion et al, 2002; Aghion and Howitt, 2004; Vandenbussche et al., 2006.”
The economic case for education† (2016, methodology): “See the model calibration in Krueger and Kumar (2004a, 2004b).”
General Education versus Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition (2010, background): “6 Krueger and Kumar (2004a, 2004b) have recently applied this logic to explain the trends in relative growth between the United States and Europe over the previous half-century.”
Vocational Education and Employment over the Life Cycle (2016, background): “Major technological innovations changed the skills that are required in contemporary labor markets, making the specific skill set of vocationally trained workers inadequate for changing job content (Krueger and Kumar, 2004a,b).”
Technological regimes and sectoral differences in productivity growth (2007, background): “11 Krueger and Kumar (2004) points out the existence of a different educational focus between US and Europe, where the educational system in European countries more frequently focuses on the development of specific skills rather than on general education.”