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Competition, innovation and growth with limited commitment
Marimon, Ramon; Quadrini, Vincenzo - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005
We study how barriers to business start-up affect the investment in knowledge capital when contracts are not … enforceable. Barriers to business start-up lower the competition for knowledge capital and, in absence of commitment, reduce the … incentive to accumulate knowledge. As a result, countries with large barriers experience lower income and growth. Our results …
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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial: Distinctions by Entry Visa
Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468510
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Employment Protection Legislation, Multinational Firms and Innovation
Griffith, Rachel; Macartney, Gareth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The theoretical effects of labour regulations such as employment protection legislation (EPL) on innovation is … technologically advanced innovation. In this paper we find empirical evidence that both effects are at work - multinational … innovation in countries with low EPL. …
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Learning for Employment, Innovating for Growth
Falkinger, Josef; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
productivity. Education as well as innovation and production require skilled labour as inputs. This and the fact that learning …
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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools
Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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Technology in Growth
Keely, Louise; Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more generally, the economics of intellectual property rights. This paper argues …
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Immigration and the School System
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...
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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...
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Doctors without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel
Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this Paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...
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Task trade and the employment pattern: the offshoring and onshoring of Brazilian firms
Ehrl, Philipp - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper studies the effect of an expansion of imported intermediate inputs on establishments’ average task intensities and employment size in a middle-income country. I use confidential matched employer-employee data and information on trade transactions for the universe of Brazilian firms....
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