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Smog in our brains : gender differences in the impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance
Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo; Zhang, Xin - 2017
While there is a large body of literature on the negative health effects of air pollution, there is much less written about its effects on cognitive performance for the whole population. This paper studies the effects of contemporaneous and cumulative exposure to air pollution on cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110616
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Shacklean uncertainty and cultural embeddedness as innovation constraints in the UK
Tubadji, Annie; Nijkamp, Peter; Santarelli, Enrico - 2017
We focus on both individual and local uncertainty to explain the innovation potential of entrepreneurs in the NUTS1 UK … choices are truncated is taken as a determinant of an entrepreneur's innovation decision. GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor … determinant of individual entrepreneurial choice. The regional effect appears to amount to about 4% of the innovation differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119250
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Look who's talking : on the heterogeneous returns to foreign language use at work among natives and migrants in Europe
Wang, Zhiling; Graaff, Thomas de; Nijkamp, Peter - 2017
language knowledge of low-educated migrants causes these results, as immigrants for whom themother tongue is similar to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119134
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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 2014
This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428152
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Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020
Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study using unique Swedish employeremployee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable natives is mainly caused by occupational sorting into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222073
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Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020
Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study using unique Swedish employer-employee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable natives is mainly caused by occupational sorting into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233550
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University spinoffs and the “performance premium”
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - 2013
The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696949
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Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants : lessons from Sweden
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2024
This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative employer-employee data from 1990 onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted asylum, are compared to a matched sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014483881
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Air pollution and entrepreneurship
Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2022 - This Version: November 2022
We examine the causal effect of air pollution on an individual's propensity for entrepreneurship in China. Our preferred model, which employs an instrumental variable approach to address endogeneity arising from sorting into entrepreneurship and locational choices, suggests that exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013466447
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Air pollution and entrepreneurship
Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2022 - This version: November 2022
We examine the causal effect of air pollution on an individual's propensity for entrepreneurship in China. Our preferred model, which employs an instrumental variable approach to address endogeneity arising from sorting into entrepreneurship and locational choices, suggests that exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013449426