How much economic mobility is there across generations in a poor, primarily rural, economy? How much do … degree of mobility across generations, associated with the shift from farm to non-farm sectors and greater economic activity …

This paper investigates the combined impact of a first-mover advantage and of firms' limited mobility on the … development uncertainty and may enter by investing in lumpy capacity units. With perfect mobility, when the first entrant plays as … result is not robust to the introduction of firm-specific limited mobility constraints. If one firm is sufficiently less able …

regarding nature, scale, significance and impact of the mobility of this population of prolific inventors. In particular the … paper suggests an analysis that measures the effects on mobility on individual inventive productivity and the value of … invention. We call “prolificness” the capacity to accumulate knowledge and experience through mobility (that is to say through …

mobility of urban residents. …

that mobility plays in the behavior of prolific inventors, whom we identify based on the number of patents exceeding a … threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one technical field to … invention value, (2) inter-firm mobility is a consistently positive determinant of productivity and (3) technological mobility …

This paper studies the link between migration, remittances and productive assets accumulation for a panel of poor rural … households in Mexico over the period 1997- 2006. In a context of financial markets imperfections, migration may act as a …. Exploiting within family variation and an instrumental variable strategy, we show that migration indeed accelerates productive …