Showing 1 - 10 of 50
receiving countries, such as education and training decisions, skill and diversity spillovers, age structure, entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025431
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013440394
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011879298
An important question for firms and policy makers is whether the recruitment of foreign workers can boost innovation …. Migration studies have demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … qualitative information on firm innovation. We consider both the number of immigrants these firms employ and their cultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224819
This paper characterizes the optimal time path of R&D and capital subsidization. Starting from the steady state under current R&D subsidization in the US, the R&D subsidy should significantly jump upwards and then slightly decrease over time. There is a small loss in welfare, however, from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010870991
This paper develops a theory in which oligarchic ownership of land or other natural resources may impede entrepreneurship in the manufacturing sector and may thereby retard structural change and economic development. We show that, due to oligopsony power of owners in the agricultural labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636569
A simple semi-endogenous growth model is employed to show that optimal subsidization of both R&D and capital costs is independent of the distribution of R&D skills in the workforce. This holds despite the empirically supported fact that a higher R&D subsidy rate raises wages of R&D workers.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010664117
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551533
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487401
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586234