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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the Gap between Industrial Dynamics and Growth
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2015
of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …
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Liquidity constraints, informal financing, and entrepreneurship: Direct and indirect effects of a cash transfer programme
Ribas, Rafael P. - 2014
This paper exploits a liquidity shock from a large-scale welfare programme in Brazil to investigate the importance of credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on how liquidity shocks change recipients' behaviour...
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Are all high-skilled cohorts created equal? Unemployment, gender, and research productivity
Conley, John P.; Önder, Ali Sina; Togler, Benno - 2012
Using life cycle publication data of 9,368 economics PhD graduates from 127 U.S. institutions, we investigate how unemployment in the U.S. economy prior to starting graduate studies and at the time of entry into the academic job market affect economics PhD graduates' research productivity. We...
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Schooling externalities, technology and productivity: theory and evidence from US states
Iranzo, Susana; Peri, Giovanni - 2006
The recent literature on externalities of schooling in the U.S. is rather mixed: positive external effects of average education are hardly found at all, while often positive externalities from the share of college graduates are identified. This paper proposes a simple model to explain this fact...
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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014
Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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Intrapreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive
Elert, Niklas; Stenkula, Mikael - 2020
Researchers increasingly recognize that entrepreneurial employees, intrapreneurs, play a critical role in innovation …
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Jobs Incorporated: Incorporation Status and Job Creation
Åstebro, Thomas; Tåg, Joacim - 2015
Recent research has shown that entrepreneurs who start incorporated firms are fundamentally different from entrepreneurs who start sole proprietorships. This difference suggests that incorporation status may distinguish the self-employed with no ambition to hire from entrepreneurs who plan to...
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Does College Education Reduce Small Business Failure?
Asoni, Andrea; Sanandaji, Tino - 2014
We estimate the effect of college education on business survival using the NLSY79. The endogeneity of both education and business ownership is accounted for by a competing risks duration model augmented with a college selection equation. Contrary to the previous literature, we fi nd no effect of...
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Personnel training: A theoretical and empirical review
Ericson, Thomas - 2005
This report provides an introduction to personnel training (on-the-job training) literature in the economics field. Theoretical models dealing with the initiation of training programmes and their effects on pay at the individual level are discussed, and empirical research on wage effects is...
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Educational financing and lifetime earnings
Sauer, Robert M. - 2002
This paper formulates and estimates a dynamic: programming model of the optimal edueational financing dedsions and post-graduation career choices of law school graduates. The purpose of the paper is to measure the effect of short-term parental cash transfers, received during school, on in-school...
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