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On immigration and native entrepreneurship

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of im-migrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …

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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020 - This Version: March 15, 2020

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's educationbecause of credit market imperfections. Parents may underestimate a girl's ability, expect lowerreturns,...

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Is gender destiny? : gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility in India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2021 - This version: March 22, 2021

We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated by coresidency. The standard linear model misses...

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What the mean measures of mobility miss : learning about intergenerational mobility from conditional variance

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, … - 2022 - This version: February 17, 2022

A large literature on intergenerational mobility focuses on the conditional mean of children's economic outcomes to understand the role of family background, but ignores the information contained in conditional variance. Using exceptionally rich data free of coresidency bias, we provide evidence...

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Family unification, siblings, and skills

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2018

knowledge about the complex interactions of admission categories, human capital investment, and earnings growth. …

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A historical note on the assimilation rates of foreign-born women in the U.S.

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Dowhan, Dan; Liu, Xingfei - 2023

Using historical, longitudinal data on individuals, we track the earnings of immigrant and U.S.-born women. Following individuals, instead of synthetic cohorts, avoids biases in earnings-growth estimates caused by compositional changes in the cohorts that are followed. The historical data...

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Whither the evolution of the contemporary social fabric? : new technologies and old socio-economic trends

Dosi, Giovanni; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2019

the processes of innovation and diffusion of what we could call "intelligent automation" are likely to change, or more … the ensuing impact on jobs, division of labour, distribution of knowledge, power, and control. Finally, we address some …

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The future of industrial policies in the new millennium : toward a knowledge-centered development agenda

Cimoli, Mario; Dosi, Giovanni; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - In: Industrial policy and development : the political …, (pp. 541-560). 2009

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Technological catching-up, sales dynamics and employment growth : evidence from China's manufacturing firms

Dosi, Giovanni; Yu, Xiaodan - 2018

' heterogeneous productivity gains and sales dynamics, and innovation activities ultimately shape the patterns of employment dynamics …. Using firm's productivity growth as a proxy for process innovation, our results show that the latter correlates negatively … innovation and patenting activities on employment growth appear to be negligible. …

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Technology and employment in a vertically connected economy : a model and an empirical test

Dosi, Giovanni; Piva, M.; Virgillito, Maria Enrica; … - 2019

This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change...

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