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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884235
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Foreign and Native-Born STEM Graduates and Innovation Intensity in the United States
Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959806
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959824
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762372
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Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?
Prettner, Klaus; Bloom, David E.; Strulik, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments suggesting that the effect of falling fertility on effective labor supply can be offset by associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279243
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279336
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
, direct effect of human capital on TFP growth. This direct effect is hypothesized to come from domestic innovation activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822282
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Women’s Liberation: What’s in It for Men?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men’s incentives for sharing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763642
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Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its … growth models estimated across world regions, these low levels of cognitive skills can account for the poor growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469714
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469720