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

Fassio, Claudio; Kalantaryan, Sona; Venturini, Alessandra - 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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Nothing Really Matters: Evaluating Demand-Side Moderators of Age Discrimination in Hiring

Dalle, Axana; Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn - 2023

As age discrimination hampers the OECD's ambition to extend the working population, an efficient anti-discrimination policy targeted at the right employers is critical. Therefore, the context in which age discrimination is most prevalent must be identified. In this study, we thoroughly review...

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Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany

Brücker, Herbert; Trübswetter, Parvati - 2004

Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should disappear. Using a switching regression model and data from the IABemployment sample, we find however...

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Migration as a Substitute for Informal Activities: Evidence from Tajikistan

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

How is migration related to informal activities? They may be complementary since new migrants may have difficulty finding employment in formal work, so many of them end up informally employed. Alternatively, migration and informality may be substitutes since migrants' incomes in their new...

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Migration as a substitute for informal activities: Evidence from Tajikistan

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - 2011

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Employment Discrimination in a Former Soviet Union Republic: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Asali, Muhammad; Pignatti, Norberto; Skhirtladze, Sophiko - 2017

We provide the first experimental evidence about ethnic discrimination in the labor market in Georgia. We randomly assign Georgian and non-Georgian, male and female, names to similar resumes and apply for jobs as advertised in help-wanted web sites in Georgia. We find that gender has no effect...

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Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany

Brücker, Herbert; Trübswetter, Parvati - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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How Do Native and Migrant Workers Contribute to Innovation? A Study on France, Germany and the UK

Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015

different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …

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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …

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The Economics of Diversity: Innovation, Productivity, and the Labour Market

Ozgen, Ceren - 2021

of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …

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