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On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship

Duleep, Harriet; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

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

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Foreign and Native-Born STEM Graduates and Innovation Intensity in the United States

Winters, John V. - 2014

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change

Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2003

This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill?favoring shifts in the Russian and U.S. economies are driven by the...

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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...

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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lynch, Lisa M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

States during the 1990’s, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments in organizational innovation. Past profits tend to be positively associated with organizational innovation. Employers … being part of a multi-establishment firm) are more likely to invest in organizational innovation. Investments in human …

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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change

Peter, Klara Sabirianova - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill–favoring shifts in the Russian and U.S. economies are driven by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703457

Gone with the Storm: Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala

Baez, Javier E.; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Genoni, Maria Eugenia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper investigates the causal consequences of Tropical Storm Agatha (2010) – the strongest tropical storm ever to strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept – on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative effects, particularly among urban households. Per...

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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