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Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2008

or output of a knowledge production function. We suggest that the productivity of research in patent production functions … to patentable knowledge, and development happens after the initial research phase that may have led to a patent. Instead … of using data on R&D, we separate the knowledge creating process into 'R' and 'D'. This data stems from R&D surveys of …

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The knowledge production of "R and "D"

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius; Thorwarth, Susanne - In: Economics letters 105 (2009) 1, pp. 141-143

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The Knowledge Production of 'R' and 'D'

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius; Thorwarth, Suzanne - 2013

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Human capital formation, asymmetric information, and the dynamics of international migration

Stark, Oded; Chau, Nancy H. - 1998

We consider the case in which the opening up of an economy to migration results in departure of skilled workers. We point out that while the possibility of migration changes the set of employment opportunities, it also affects the structure of incentives: Higher returns to skills in the foreign...

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Inducing human capital formation: Migration as a substitute for subsidies

Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2001

When productivity is fostered by an individual's own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. The provision of subsidies for the formation of human capital, conditional on the subsidy being self-financed by tax...

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On the economics of refugee flows

Stark, Oded - 2003

Although the phenomenon of refugee flows is not devoid of economic connotations, it has so far been investigated primarily by political scientists and sociologists. The analytical tools of economic inquiry have not yet been applied to this subject, although it stands to reason that such a study...

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The intergenerational overlap and human capital formation

Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2004

We propose a new microeconomic explanation for the divergent experiences of economies in forming human capital. We suggest that the positive effect of a longer life expectancy on human capital formation arises from two separate effects: a life-expectancy effect and a prolonged intergenerational...

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The prospect of migration, sticky wages, and educated unemployment

Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon - 2011

An increase in the probability of work abroad, where the returns to schooling are higher than at home, induces more individuals in a developing country to acquire education, which leads to an increase in the supply of educated workers in the domestic labor market. Where there is a sticky...

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A back-door brain drain

Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz - 2012

In this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the average skill level in the home country. We analyze what appears to be the least threatening scenario from the point of view of its effect on the supply of skills at home: namely,...

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Endogenous selection of comparison groups, human capital formation, and tax policy

Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter; Wang, Yong - 2011

This paper considers a setting in which the acquisition of human capital entails a change of location in social space that causes individuals to revise their comparison groups. Skill levels are viewed as occupational groups, and moving up the skill ladder by acquiring additional human capital,...

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