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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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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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The prospect of migration, sticky wages, and "educated unemployment"

Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze 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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On the economic architecture of the workplace : repercussions of social comparisons amongst heterogeneous workers

Hyll, Walter; Stark, Oded - 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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Endogenous selection of comparison groups, human capital formation, and tax policy

Hyll, Walter; Stark, Oded; 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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The prospect of migration, sticky wages, and "educated unemployment"

Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon - 2011

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Why would some migrants choose to engage in degrading work?

Stark, Oded; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2011

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 "bads"...

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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 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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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 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 countryś society, and economic assimilation as acquisition of human capital that is specific to the host...

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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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