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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021639
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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it … correlation between emigration and innovation in the presence of strong IPRs protection. …
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Skill-Biased Technological Change and Skill-Enhancing Trade in Turkey: Evidence from Longitudinal Microdata
Srour, Ilina; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper explores the causes of skill-based employment differentials within the Turkish manufacturing sector over the period 1980-2001. Turkey is taken as an example of a developing economy that, in that period, had been technologically advancing and becoming increasingly integrated with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635589
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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research: With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703160
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Trade Openness and the Demand for Skills: Evidence from Turkish Microdata
Meschi, Elena; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
innovation diffusion comes from - enter the estimated regression significantly. …
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Globalization and Income Inequality
Vivarelli, Marco; Meschi, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper discusses the distributive consequences of trade flows in developing countries (DCs). On the theoretical side, we argue that the interplays between international openness and technology adoption may constitute an important mechanism leading to a possible increase of income...
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Robots at Work
Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We...
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The Big Trade-Off in the World of Labor
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
The world is changing rapidly. This paper describes key shifts and it discusses their likely impacts on employment-related aspects. Labor market pressures are felt around the globe, and robots and automation increasingly become reality. However, there will be no "end of work". Rather, it is that...
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Changes in China's Wage Structure
Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis Tao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure during a period of rapid economic growth. Between 1992 and 2007, the average real wage increased by 202 percent, accompanied by a sharp rise in wage inequality. Decomposition...
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Die Zukunft der Arbeit und der Wandel der Arbeitswelt
Eichhorst, Werner; Buhlmann, Florian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Die Zukunft der Arbeit wird vom technischen Fortschritt, der Globalisierung, dem demographischen Wandel und institutionellen Veränderungen geprägt. Daraus entwickelt sich in Fortschreibung jüngerer Entwicklungen eine vielfältige Arbeitswelt mit erheblichen Unterschieden der...
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