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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...
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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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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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Training and Unions
Booth, Alison L; Chatterji, Monojit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The paper examines the optimal level of training investment when trained workers are mobile, wage contracts are time-consistent, and training comprises both specific and general skills. It is shown that, in the absence of a social planner, the firm has ex-post monopsonistic power that drives...
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Why do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence
Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
This paper offers and tests a theory of training whereby workers do not pay for general training they receive. The crucial ingredient in our model is that the current employer has superior information about the worker’s ability relative to other firms. This informational advantage gives the...
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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm Level Evidence
Konings, Jozef; Vanormelingen, Stijn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions to control for the endogeneity of input factors and training is applied....
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Apprenticeships and Job Tenure: A Competing Risks Model with Time-varying Covariates
Booth, Alison L; Satchell, Stephen E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
The paper examines the extent of apprenticeships in the first job for a cohort of young men entering the labour market at age 16 in the late 1970s. The impact of the apprenticeship on employment duration and early labour market mobility is estimated. The data set used is the National Child...
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Who Gets Over the Training Hurdle? A Study of the Training Experiences of Young Men and Women in Britain
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
Using longitudinal data from the British National Child Development Study, this paper examines gender differences in the determinants of work-related training. The analysis covers a crucial decade in the working lives of the 1958 birth cohort of young men and women – the years spanning the...
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Firm collaboration and modes of innovation in Norway
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper examines the sources of firm product and process innovation in Norway. It uses a purpose-built survey of ….’s (2007) contention that firm innovation is both the result of ‘science, technology and innovation’ (STI) and ‘doing, using … innovation and that both STI and DUI-modes of interaction matter. However, it also shows that DUI modes of interaction outside …
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