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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2014

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high … applications by about 0.2%. By contrast, the impact of high-skilled immigrants on innovation is positive, in line with the previous …

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F. - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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Human Resources and Innovation : Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital

Fassio, Claudio - 2015

The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

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Are inventors or firms the engines of innovation?

Bhaskarabhatla, Ajay; Cabral, Luís M. B.; Hedge, Deepak; … - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 67 (2021) 6, pp. 3899-3920

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Do general managerial skills spur innovation?

Custódio, Cláudia; Ferreira, Miguel A.; Matos, Pedro - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 65 (2019) 2, pp. 459-476

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Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s

Liu, Xuejun - 2014

Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively skill-deficit countries, in recent decades many developing countries have experienced rising wage premiums for skilled workers. We examines this puzzle by quantifying the...

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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China

Fleisher, Belton M. - 2013

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...

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Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?

Parker, Simon C. - 2010

I explore the factors that determine whether new business opportunities are exploited by starting a new venture for an employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06...

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …

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Technology and the Demand for Skill : An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences

Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John; Lane, Julia; … - 2021

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...

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