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Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...

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Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...

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The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little understanding as to why. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is primarily because referrals allow...

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Foreign and Native-Born STEM Graduates and Innovation Intensity in the United States

Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

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How does innovation affect worker well-being?

Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald; Barth, Erling - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for the endogeneity of innovation. This is the case for three different … count measures of innovation – a global measure of innovation and measures for labour innovations and capital innovations …

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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobility for Industrial Innovation

Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …

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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …

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Do inventors talk to strangers? on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

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