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Fields of knowledge in higher education institutions, and innovative start-ups : an empirical investigation

Fritsch, Michael; Aamoucke, Ronney - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 96 (2017), pp. 1-27

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Fritsch, Michael; Slavtchev, Viktor - In: Industry and Innovation 14 (2007) 2, pp. 201-218

We investigate the role of universities as a knowledge source for regional innovation processes. The contribution of … pure size is unimportant. Therefore, a policy that wants to promote regional innovation processes by building up … effects of universities to be concentrated in space. Obviously, the geographical proximity to particular knowledge sources is …

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Immigrant over- and under-education : the role of home country labour market experience

Matloob, Piracha; Tani, Massimiliano; Vadean, Florin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

Literature on the immigrant labour market mismatch has not explored the signal provided by the quality of home country work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration.We show that type of work experience in the home country plays a significant role in...

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Using a point system for selecting immigrants : a point system can select economically desirable immigrants but it cannot prevente poor labor outcomes for immigrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2014

Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, succeeds in selecting economically desirable immigrants and provides orderly management of population growth. But the point system cannot fix short-term skilled labor shortages...

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Top Research Productivity and Its Persistence: Gender as a Double-Edged Sword

Kelchtermans, Stijn; Veugelers, Reinhilde - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 1, pp. 273-285

The paper contributes to the debate on top performance in research productivity, its persistence over time, and the impact of gender. It uses a panel data set comprising the publications of all biomedical and exact scientists at the University of Leuven in the period 1992 to 2001. We find that...

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Over-education of recent higher education graduates: New Australian panel evidence

Carroll, David; Tani, Massimiliano - In: Economics of Education Review 32 (2013) C, pp. 207-218

This study investigates the incidence of over-education amongst recent Australian bachelor degree graduates and its effect on their earnings. We find that between 24% and 37% of graduates were over-educated shortly after course completion, with over-education most common amongst young females...

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Supply of Human Capital in Times of Skill Biased Technological Change

Zwick, Thomas - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 221 (2001) 3, pp. 322-335

This paper analyses the skill supply consequences of skill biased technological change. In a simple microeconomic model it is shown that higher skill wage mark-ups as well as higher relative unskilled unemployment - frequently attributed to skill biased technological change - induce...

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Immigrant over- and under-education : the role of home country labour market experience

Piracha Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vadean, Florin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

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Top Research Productivity and its Persistence

Kelchtermans, Stijn; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The paper contributes to the debate on cumulative advantage effects in academic research by examining top performance in research and its persistence over time, using a panel dataset comprising the publications of biomedical and exact scientists at the KU Leuven in the period 1992-2001. We study...

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The phantom of the opera: Cultural amenities, human capital, and regional economic growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - In: Labour Economics 18 (2011) 6, pp. 755-766

knowledge spillovers and shift a location to a higher growth path. …

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