Showing 1 - 10 of 1,131
We show a causal impact of immigration on innovation and dynamism in US counties. To identify the causal impact of … recent decades. We show four main results. First, immigration has a positive impact on innovation, measured by the patenting … impact of immigration on innovation percolates over space, but spatial spillovers quickly die out with distance. Fourth, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230294
Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477128
We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189836
causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792180
Firms in younger labor markets produce more innovation. We establish this by instrumenting the current labor force with … unobservable heterogeneity across local labor markets and firms, life cycles, and other effects. Corporate innovation in younger … as a group – inventors interacting with non-inventors – produce more innovation for firms through the labor supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106138
, Entwicklung, Invention und Innovation. In diesem Beitrag wird daher überprüft, inwieweit die baden-württembergische Beschäftigung …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548350
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418916
This paper applies the Directed Technical Change (DTC) framework to study improvements in the efficiency of energy use. We present a theoretical model which (1) shows that the demand for energy is shifted down by innovations in energy intensive sectors and (2) highlights the drivers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334550
industries, and patents can distort resources away from industries where they are most productive. -- innovation ; patent policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009711658
increase mirroring the social cost of carbon. We find that the induced clean innovation response primarily comes from existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383723