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Digital technology adoption, productivity gains in adopting firms and sectoral spill-overs : firm-level evidence from Estonia
Mosiashvili, Natia; Pareliussen, Jon - 2020
With a newly constructed firm-level dataset combining various survey- and registry data from Statistics Estonia, this paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct...
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Technological innovations for business, education and sustainability
Hamdan, Allam Mohammed Mousa (ed.) - 2024 - First edition
Awareness of the essential skills required for thriving in the job market is necessary for educators and employers. Shedding light on the role of industry in promoting work-based learning, Technological Innovations for Business and Education Sustainability considers how technology has both...
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Chapter 1. Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2014
where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … hinges on risk tolerance and patience. Parents expecting their children to become entrepreneurs have an incentive to instill … entrepreneurs there are in a society hinges, in turn, on parental investments in children’s patience and risk tolerance. There can …
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Firms and the economics of skilled immigration
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - 2014
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...
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Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms: Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program
Link, Albert N.; Ruhm, Christopher; Siegel, Donald S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of entrepreneurial firms. We fill this gap by examining a rich...
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Mitbestimmung und Innovation aus Betriebsratsperspektive. Ergebnisse qualitativer Studien (Co-determination and Innovation from a Works Council Perspective. Some Qualitative Resear...
Stracke, Stefan; Nerdinger, Friedemann W. - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 17 (2010) 1, pp. 30-53
Innovationen werden als wichtige Erfolgsstrategie fuer Unternehmen gesehen. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, ob es auch Aufgabe fuer Betriebsraete sein kann, langfristig die Innovationsstrategie der Unternehmen zu beeinflussen und die Innovationsbereitschaft der Beschaeftigten anzuregen. In diesem...
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Knowledge spillovers and intellectual property rights
Samaniego, Roberto M. - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 31 (2013) 1, pp. 50-63
Knowledge spillovers are widely thought to be important for innovative activity, yet theory is ambiguous about the sign of the relationship. Assuming that knowledge spillovers are more easily exploited where intellectual property rights are weakly enforced, this paper uses country–industry...
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Analysing innovative output in a CIS database: taking account of some nasty details
Paananen, Mikko; Kleinknecht, Alfred - In: ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE 2010/1 (2010) 1, pp. 13-31
Recent analyses of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data suffer from methodological shortcomings. Using Finnish CIS data, we illustrate the potential consequences of these shortcomings and propose ways of dealing with them. We show how the neglect of lag structures between dependent and...
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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This contribution has been...
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