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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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Management of knowledge workers

Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - 2012

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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Bidding for brains: Intellectual property rights and the international migration of knowledge workers

McAusland, Carol; Kuhn, Peter - 2010

We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762372

Management of Knowledge Workers

Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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How much does immigration boost innovation?

Hunt, Jennifer; Gauthier-Loiselle, Marjolaine - 2009

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual …

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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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The adoption and diffusion of organizational innovation: evidence for the US economy

Lynch, Lisa M. - 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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Technology and the demand for skill: an analysis of within and between firm differences

Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John; Lane, Julia; … - 2007

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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Intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship?

Parker, Simon C. - 2009

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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