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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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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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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gerald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with … innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural effect may offset the negative effects of bad institutions on growth … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

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Equilibrium Wage Arrears: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Institutional Lock-In

Earle, John S.; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...

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The State of University Policy for Progress in Europe

Hoareau, Cécile; Ritzen, Jo; Marconi, Gabriele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national … higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …

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

Praag, C. Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

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

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