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The Division of Labor and the Market for Organizations

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and toward multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division...

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Compulsory Education and Jack-of-all-trades Entrepreneurs

Douhan, Robin - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

Can educational institutions explain occupational choice between wage employment and entrepreneurship? This paper follows Lazear's (2005) Jack-of-all-trades hypothesis according to which an individual with a more balanced set of abilities is more likely to enter into entrepreneurship. In the...

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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Firm Provision of General Training and Specific Human Capital Acquisition

Casas-Arce, Pablo - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

The existing literature on training is concerned with understanding the reasons why firms pay for the general skills of their workers, but without explaining which firms train which workers. This paper develops a theory that both explains the willingness of firms to pay for general training, and...

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Information and Human Capital Management

Jewitt, Ian; Leaver, Clare; Bar-Isaac, Heski - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

An increasingly important organisational design problem for many firms is to recoup general human capital rents while maintaining attractive career prospects for workers. We explore the role of information management in this context. In our model, an information management policy determines the...

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Brain Drain or Brain Gain?Micro Evidence from an African Success Story

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the case of Cape Verde - the sub-Saharan African country with the largest fraction of tertiary-educated...

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Patent Scope and Technology Choice

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent … duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in patent scope can increase the probability of innovation if the … incumbent’s profit increase from innovation is large and the patented technology has a small advantage over the alternative …

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The Value of Intellectual Property Rights to Firms

Greenhalgh, Christine; Rogers, Mark - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Economists view intellectual property rights (IPRs) as policy tools for encouraging innovation. There are many types of …

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