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This paper investigates the effects of ethnic violence on export-oriented firms and their workers. Following the disputed 2007 Kenyan presidential election, export volumes of flower firms affected by the ensuing violence dropped by 38 percent and worker absence exceeded 50 percent. Large firms...
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future of innovation? First-rate inventions in the 1990s, notably the web and user-friendly business productivity software … markets that welcome innovation, while Europe remains under the control of corporatist institutions that dampen competition …
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innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
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Using state-level data from India over the period 1983 to 2005, this paper gauges the effect of financial deepening and …. This suggests that financial deepening contributed to poverty alleviation in rural areas by fostering entrepreneurship and …
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for people to become an entrepreneur. Based on a large-scale data set of nearly ninety thousand workers in India, this …, are found to be conducive to entrepreneurship, while others, such as Hinduism, inhibit entrepreneurship. In addition, the … tradition of the caste system influence entrepreneurship, suggesting a link between religion and economic behaviour. …
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Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the conflict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more pro-entrepreneurial policies....
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routinized phase where innovation takes place within top-performing incumbents; (3) a second entrepreneurial phase characterized … routinization, in which no further innovation takes place, but is instead a phase of structural change. Using data on 74 West German …
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We study how complementarities and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results relay when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We argue that firms...
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The intellectual breakthrough contributed by the new growth theory was the recognition that investments in knowledge … and human capital endogenously generate economic growth through the spillover of knowledge. Endogenous growth theory does … entrepreneurship as a mechanism that reduces the knowledge filter. A cross-country regression analysis over the period 1981 …
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