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Star Scientists, Innovation and Regional and National Immigration
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
. Their number in a US region or a top-25 science and technology (S&T) country significantly increases the probability of firm …
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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231008
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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?
Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...
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Why Do Programmers Earn More in Houston Than Hyderabad? Evidence from Randomized Processing of US Visas
Clemens, Michael A. - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 198-202
two countries in a unique setting. The product is perfectly tradable (software), technology differences are nil (they are … natural randomization). The results suggest that output tradability, technology, and human capital together explain much less …
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Resistance to Technology Adoption: The Rise and Decline of Guilds
Desmet, Klaus; Parente, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
technology that does not require their specialized input. The theory predicts an inverted-U relation between guilds and market … size: for small markets, firm profits are insufficient to cover the fixed cost of adopting the new technology, and hence … productive technology diffuses throughout the economy. We show that this inverted-U relation between guilds and market size …
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Competitor localization and innovation activity of peripheral industrial systems in Poland
Swiadek, Arkadiusz - In: Ekonomia i Prawo 12 (2013) 3, pp. 463-474
Spatial proximity to competitors is an important factor in the acceleration of technological change in industrial systems in most developed countries, but is it also in Poland? The main objective of the study was to identify and evaluation the impact of distance from the nearest competitor on...
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Knowledge, Human Capital and Economic Development: Evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750-1930
Khan, B. Zorina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
, skills, and knowledge inputs that shift the frontier of technology and production possibilities. Many argue that the nature …
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Are We Innovative?
Kerchev, Krassimir - In: Economic Studies journal (2012) 2, pp. 36-44
According to the General Innovation Index, the not large European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland and Sweden) are among the leaders of innovativeness of the national economy. For the Europe scale, by number of population, area, representation in...
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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Is It U-Shaped?
Wennekers, Sander; van Stel, André; Carree, Martin; … - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship 6 (2010) 3, pp. 167-237
Following a centuries-long decline in the rate of self-employment, a discontinuity in this downward trend is observed for many advanced economies starting in the 1970s and 1980s. In some countries, the rate of self-employment appears to increase. At the same time, crosssectional analysis shows a...
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