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French Engineering Graduates in Corporate R & D : Is it worthwhile ?

Bourdon, Jean; Bonnard, Claire; Paul, Jean-Jacques - HAL - 2008

prospect for the labour market for scientists, and other papers, which showed earnings differences between engineering … Scientifiques de France) amongst the engineering graduates, whatever their age and experience. Usually, around 40,000 engineers … answer the questionnaire. In this paper, we used the data from the survey conducted in 2006 and we consider only engineers …

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Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms

Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2014

We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions...

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Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

depend upon immigrant scientists and engineers. Spatial adjustments are faster for technologies that depend heavily on …

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The Ethnic Composition of US Inventors

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2007

The ethnic composition of US scientists and engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an … trends with greater detail than previously available. Most notably, the contributions of Chinese and Indian scientists to US …

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The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. Specifically, we use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Fluctuations in H-1B admissions levels significantly influence the rate of Indian and Chinese patenting in...

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The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Kerr, William; Lincoln, William - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2010

This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian...

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The Agglomeration of US Ethnic Inventors

Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

with greater detail. The contributions of Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers to US technology formation increase …

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Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2012

We study how exploration versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multiproduct firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new product lines and exploitation R&D to...

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Engineering Organization and the Scientist in World War I: The Search for National Service and Recognition

Pursell, Carroll - In: Prometheus 24 (2006) 3, pp. 257-268

the government. Engineers and scientists struggled to find an appropriate mechanism, but the former found themselves …

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Nuclear knowledge management: a crucial bridge to the global nuclear renaissance

Carlisle, Charles S.; Hunter, John R.; Waltar, Alan E. - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 30 (2008) 1/2/3/4, pp. 360-375

By 1980 the American nuclear industry, along with its nuclear knowledge infrastructure, was in decline due to growing public concerns for nuclear safety, nuclear weapons proliferation, economic uncertainty, mediocre early reactor performance and waste disposal. Recent renewed interest in...

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