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The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …
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of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …
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The aim of this paper is to develop a spatial model that explicitly incorporates the different types of knowledge … knowledge via face-to-face interactions. Our model incorporates two forms of knowledge spillovers happening in these meetings … whose intensities are dependent on the similarity of knowledge background of the interacting individuals: First, the …
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This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German … knowledge information for different jobs that comes from the US Department of Labor. We make use of the regional information … inherent to the GSOEP that can be accessed only through a special user contract. High-knowledge employment is differently …
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Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …
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This study identifies clusters of U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas with similar knowledge traits. These groups … - ranging from Making Regions, characterized by knowledge about manufacturing, to Thinking Regions, noted for knowledge about … activities. In addition these knowledge-based clusters help explain the types of regions that have levels of economic development …
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/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …
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We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...
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We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product …, and the United Nations. We find that labor mobility positively affects innovation: on average, a 10% increase in the flow … products/services or process, supporting the use of labor mobility as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge …
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What puts productivity spillovers into effect through worker mobility across firms? Productivity difference between the sending and receiving firms have been found to drive these spillovers; while an alternative explanation suggests that labor flows from foreign-owned companies provide...
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