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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Smith, Adam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...

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Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the …-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of Health provides an exogenous source of variation in re-licensing outcomes … to occupational entry restrictions and negative selection into licensing status. We develop a model of optimal license …

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Immigrant Networks and Their Implications for Occupational Choice and Wages

Patel, Krishna; Vella, Francis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper employs United States Census data to study the occupational allocation of immigrants. The data reveal that the occupational shares of various ethnic groups have grown drastically in regional labor markets over the period 1980 to 2000. We examine the extent to which this growth can be...

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International Migration: A Panel Data Analysis of Economic and Non-Economic Determinants

Mayda, Anna Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In this paper I empirically investigate economic and non-economic determinants of migration inflows into fourteen OECD countries by country of origin, between 1980 and 1995. The annual panel data set used makes it possible to exploit both the time-series and crosscountry variation in immigrant...

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Selection or Network Effects? Migration Flows into 27 OECD Countries, 1990-2000

Pedersen, Peder J.; Pytlikova, Mariola; Smith, Nina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Recent migration patterns show growing migration pressure and changing composition of immigrants in many Western countries. During the latest decade, an increasing proportion of the OECD immigrants have been from poor countries, where the educational level of the population is low. The migration...

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Viral Altruism? Generosity and Social Contagion in Online Networks

Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Mele, Angelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates donations while broadcasting donors' activities to their contacts. We find that broadcasting is...

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Must Skilled Migration Be a Brain Drain? Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

Commander, Simon; Chanda, Rupa; Kangasniemi, Mari; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We provide a first empirical attempt at understanding the scale and type of skilled migration from the Indian software … software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more … adverse. There is some evidence of associated wage pressure at the height of the software boom in the late 1990s. But there is …

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Why Develop Open Source Software? The Role of Non-Pecuniary Benefits, Monetary Rewards and Open Source Licence Type

Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover …

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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

-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance …

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