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crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …
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capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …
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-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …
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We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual …
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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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automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …
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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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Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of provision of credit guarantees and estimate their effects on firms R&D expenditures. The...
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In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer … and demographic characteristics to valuable firm's innovation activity. The latter is measured by: (1) the firm … firm's innovation outcomes. …
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