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that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …
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Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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survival, but lag behind regular business founders in terms of income, business growth and innovation. Moreover, we show that …
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why different groups or societies develop different attitudes towards human capital formation, entrepreneurship, and … innovation. …
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …
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We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
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We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non …-marginal stochastic jump processes are the most important parameters in this highly uncertain decision process. We show that these … stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …
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In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
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To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
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innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export ratio given the small size of the country and its long-time EU …
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