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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...

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Adaptation and the Boundary of Multinational Firms

Costinot, Arnaud; Oldenski, Lindsay; Rauch, James E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

by sectors from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics. Using U.S. Census trade data, we then … demonstrate that, in line with adaptation theories of the firm, the share of intrafirm trade tends to be higher in less routine …

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Intra-firm Trade and Product Contractibility (Long Version)

Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen James; Schott, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper examines the determinants of intra-firm trade in U.S. imports using detailed country-product data. We create … a new measure of product contractibility based on the degree of intermediation in international trade for the product …. We find important roles for the interaction of country and product characteristics in determining intra-firm trade shares …

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Premature Deindustrialization

Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

I document a significant deindustrialization trend in recent decades, that goes considerably beyond the advanced, post-industrial economies. The hump-shaped relationship between industrialization (measured by employment or output shares) and incomes has shifted downwards and moved closer to the...

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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?

Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...

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Invisible Women: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Family Firms in France during Early Industrialization

Khan, B. Zorina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Family firms are typically associated with negative characteristics, including lower tendencies towards innovation, a higher risk of failure, and inefficiencies deriving from nepotism among family members, criticisms which are even greater when the company is handed over to a female relative....

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Knowledge, Human Capital and Economic Development: Evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750-1930

Khan, B. Zorina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

, skills, and knowledge inputs that shift the frontier of technology and production possibilities. Many argue that the nature …

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Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment

Squicciarini, Mara P.; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

industrial technology. …

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External Integration, Structural Transformation and Economic Development: Evidence from Argentina 1870-1914

Redding, Stephen James; Fajgelbaum, Pablo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

role of complementary investments in internal infrastructure and technology adoption in mediating the economy's response to …

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Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage

Harrison, Ann E.; Lin, Justin Yifu; Xu, L. Colin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Africa's economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. In this paper, we use firm-level data for around 80 countries to examine formal firm performance. Without controls, manufacturing African firms perform significantly worse than firms in other regions. They have lower...

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