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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …

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Sinking or swimming in the cluster labor pool? : a firm-specific analysis of the effect of specialized labour

Grashof, Nils - 2020

Human resources are a key factor for firm success, particularly nowadays when most industrial economies face an increasing shortage of qualified labour. With their pooled labour markets, regional clusters have been shown to be a preferable location for firms in order to satisfy their demand for...

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …

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Balanced skills and the city : an analysis of the relationship between entrepreneurial skill balance, thickness and innovation

Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2013

Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...

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Intellectual property rights and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltán J. (contributor); Sanders, Mark (contributor) - 2008

generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial …. -- Intellectual property rights ; endogenous growth ; entrepreneurship ; incentives ; knowledge spillovers ; rents …

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Who Chooses Which Private Education? Theory and International Evidence

Bertola, Giuseppe; Checchi, Daniele - 2013

Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government schools are better suited to talented students. To assess the empirical relevance of this...

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The impact of market size and users' sophistication on innovation : the patterns of demand and the technology life cycle

Guerzoni, Marco (contributor) - 2007

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Hidden Information Problems in the Design of Family Allowances

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa; Pettini, Anna - 2003

We consider a case where some of the parents have higher ability to raise children than others. First-best policy gives both types of parents the same level of utility. If parental actions are not fully observable, however, the policy maker has to take into account the incentive-compatibility...

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Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach

Lazear, Edward P. - 2003

One problem with the theory of firm-specific human capital is that it is difficult to generate convincing examples of investment that could generate the sometimes observed large and continuing effects on earnings. Another approach, called the ?skill-weights? view, allows all skills to be general...

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Brain Drain and LDCs? Growth: Winners and Losers

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2003

We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source countries of migrants. Using recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the ?beneficial brain drain hypothesis? in a...

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