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

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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, Suzanne - 2013

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On the economic architecture of the workplace: Repercussions of social comparisons among heterogeneous workers

Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We analyze the impact on a firm’s profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers’ earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the...

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Migration for degrading work as an escape from humiliation

Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper develops a model of voluntary migration into degrading work. The essence of the model is a tension between two “bads:” that which arises from being relatively deprived at home, and that which arises from engaging in humiliating work away from home. Balancing between these two...

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Endogenous Selection of Comparison Groups, Human Capital Formation, and Tax Policy

Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

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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On the economic architecture of the workplace: repercussions of social comparisons amongst heterogeneous workers

Hyll, Walter; Stark, Oded - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2011

We analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019610

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

Hyll, Walter; Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2011

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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2013

We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host country's society, and economic assimilation as acquisition of human capital that is specific to the host...

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Casting the naturalization of asylum seekers as an economic problem

Stark, Oded - 2010

The naturalization of asylum seekers is modeled as an economic problem. In choosing their level of investment in host-country-specific human capital, asylum seekers take into consideration the probability of their being naturalized. The government of the host country chooses the probability of...

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