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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...

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Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy

Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export ratio given the small size of the country and its long-time EU …

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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights from the intersection of entrepreneurship and...

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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap

Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international … technological transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of …

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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

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Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries

Quatraro, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The aim of this paper is to provide an updated survey of the "state of the art" in entrepreneurial studies, with a particular focus on developing countries (DCs). In particular, the same concept of "entrepreneurship" will be critically discussed, then moving to the institutional, macroeconomic...

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Entrepreneurship in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Microeconomic Perspective

Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...

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How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results

Duleep, Harriet; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are …

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Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups

Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

survival, but lag behind regular business founders in terms of income, business growth and innovation. Moreover, we show that …

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