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Regional productivity effects of multinational firm affiliates

Andersson, Martin; Gråsjö, Urban; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

have a larger fraction of skilled workers, higher R&D to sales ratios and established networks to knowledge sources in … several different countries. As illustrated by the so-called ‘anchor-tenant’ hypothesis, they can be described as “knowledge …

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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the gap between industrial dynamics and growth

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …

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The location of new firms - Influence of commuting behaviour

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship literature, it is generally assumed that individuals who start a firm start it where they live. We question this general assumption and show that this does not hold for commuters....

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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies

Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

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Immigrants and Employer-Provided Training

Barrett, Alan; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Brien, Martin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Much has been written about the labour market outcomes for immigrants in their host countries, particularly with regard to earnings, employment and occupational attainment. However, much less attention has been paid to the question of whether immigrants are as likely to receive employer-provided...

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The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigrants in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Duffy, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. We firstly produce a labour market profile of non-Irish immigrants who arrived in Ireland in the ten years to 2003. We then go on to use the labour market profile in estimating the impact of immigration (non-Irish) on the Irish labour market. Immigrants are...

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Productivity of and Returns to Knowledge Investments

Andersson, Åke E - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

Information and knowledge are essential to the decision making of firms. However, information is a primitive in the … formation of knowledge. Information and the related concepts of risk and surprise are primarily of importance for rational … decision making while knowledge is a form of (non-material) capital to be used as a resource in the transformation of different …

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Persistence of profits and the systematic search for knowledge - R&D links to firm above-norm profits

Eklund, Johan; Wiberg, Daniel - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

paper we explore the links between the systematic search for knowledge and the persistence of profits. By investing in … systematic search for knowledge through research and development. …

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