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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010796455
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Simulating the Economic Impacts of Living Wage Mandates Using New Public and Administrative Data: Evidence for New York City
Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Brindisi, Francesco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no information on the effects of the policy in the jurisdiction in question. And the policy may have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604109
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Top Team Diversity and Business Performance: Latent Class Analysis for Firms and Cities
Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little understood. Second, urban location may amplify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959751
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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two main explanations have been offered: firm selection (larger … cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …
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Identifying Human Capital Externalities: Theory with an Application to US Cities
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
cities between 1970 and 1990. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005247698
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Place Based Policies with Unemployment
Kline, Patrick; Moretti, Enrico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard spatial equilibrium models with perfectly competitive labor and land markets, local job creation efforts are distortionary. We develop a stylized model of frictional local labor...
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Russian Cities in Transition: The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s
Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that … unrestricted cities. This pattern seemingly came to an end in the late 1990s. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763516
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Cities, Tasks and Skills
Kok, Suzanne; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some tasks can be placed at distance, while … proximity relative to others. Our results suggest that cities with higher shares of connected tasks experienced higher … the complementarity between skills and cities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074817
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Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure
Pfann, Gerard A.; van Kranenburg, Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
A structural model of entry and fiscal policy is presented. It shows that taxation of variable production costs can increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability of new products in small markets. The model’s test is based on a unique nationwide fiscal experiment. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566538