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Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more generally, the economics of intellectual property rights. This paper argues …
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potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable innovation. Moreover, procurement by public agencies and large firms … consider a menu of procurement methods and policies for best procuring new knowledge and innovative products, discussing their … the degree of competition between suppliers, as well as other more practical indirect ways to stimulate innovation. We …
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We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...
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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
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This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the German Qualification and Career...
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We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...
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This presentation on innovation policy development broadens the notion of innovation to include all sorts of "process … innovations" and organizational changes. Then it describes innovation and growth in a historical perspective to conclude that … innovation policies for development should include much more than just supporting formal R&D projects, more than just in "high …
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process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process … innovation. This not significant effect of product innovation contrasts with evidence of studies for other countries. However …
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shoe manufacture in Peru, which are served by the network of Technological Innovation Centers (CITEs), the most important …
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