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How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?
Hunt, Jennifer; Gauthier-Loiselle, Marjolaine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823001
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Innovation Policy and Employment: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Argentina
Castillo, Victoria; Maffioli, Alessandro; Rojo, Sofía; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
classified as either support for process innovation or support for product innovation. Although these types of programs do not … difference in differences were combined. The study found that by supporting both process and product innovation … product innovation activities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644852
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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?
Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to bring convergence, labor flows would respond,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703144
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Knowledge Spillovers of Innovation Policy through Labor Mobility: An Impact Evaluation of the FONTAR Program in Argentina
Stucchi, Rodolfo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Rojo, Sofía; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
Although knowledge spillovers are at the core of the innovation policy's justification, they have never been properly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944311
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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa
Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522419
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Evaluating the Impact of Cluster Development Programs
Giuliani, Elisa; Maffioli, Alessandro; Pacheco, Manuel; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Do the programs that aim to promote and develop industry clusters (also known as Cluster Development Programs) work? Do they have an impact on enterprise development? This paper offers an insight into the methods that can help answer these fundamental questions through solid quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741875
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Innovation Policy and Employment: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Argentina
Castillo, Victoria; Maffioli, Alessandro; Rojo, Sofía; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
classified as either support for process innovation or support for product innovation. Although these types of programs do not … difference in differences were combined. The study found that by supporting both process and product innovation … product innovation activities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653454
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Employment Generation, Firm Size and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence from Argentina
Elejalde, Sheila de; Giuliodori, David; Stucchi, Rodolfo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper provides evidence about the relationship between innovation and employment in Argentina. In particular, it … composition (skilled-unskilled labor) and the impact of different innovation strategies (buy or make) on employment growth, and … Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters (2008) was estimated using an IV approach with data from the Innovation Surveys for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653674
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Productive Development Policies and Innovation Spillovers through Labor Force Mobility: The Case of the Brazilian Innovation Support System
Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo; Júnior, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper focuses on two research problems. The first is to measure the direct impacts of innovation support measures … in Brazil, and the second is to test the hypothesis of indirect effects of innovation policies on non-beneficiary firms … innovation have different purposes, and sound innovation relies on both types of incentive. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240383
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Employment Generation, Firm Size and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence from Argentina
Elejalde, Sheila de; Giuliodori, David; Stucchi, Rodolfo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper provides evidence about the relationship between innovation and employment in Argentina. In particular, it … composition (skilled-unskilled labor) and the impact of different innovation strategies (buy or make) on employment growth, and … Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters (2008) was estimated using an IV approach with data from the Innovation Surveys for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371002