-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance … on rare "high-impact metrics" (e.g. creating patents and avoiding truck accidents), despite having similar …

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

are used to compare the number of patents granted to co-determined firms before and after the introduction of the law …

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 …

China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …

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 …

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 …