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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...
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Intra-firm Trade and Product Contractibility (Long Version)
Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen James; Schott, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper examines the determinants of intra-firm trade in U.S. imports using detailed country-product data. We create … a new measure of product contractibility based on the degree of intermediation in international trade for the product …. We find important roles for the interaction of country and product characteristics in determining intra-firm trade shares …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008627153
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Adaptation and the Boundary of Multinational Firms
Costinot, Arnaud; Oldenski, Lindsay; Rauch, James E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
by sectors from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics. Using U.S. Census trade data, we then … demonstrate that, in line with adaptation theories of the firm, the share of intrafirm trade tends to be higher in less routine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710437
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Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage
Harrison, Ann E.; Lin, Justin Yifu; Xu, L. Colin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Africa's economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. In this paper, we use firm-level data for around 80 countries to examine formal firm performance. Without controls, manufacturing African firms perform significantly worse than firms in other regions. They have lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969221
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Coal and the European Industrial Revolution
Fernihough, Alan; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We examine the importance of geographical proximity to coal as a factor underpinning comparative European economic development during the Industrial Revolution. Our analysis exploits geographical variation in city and coalfield locations, alongside temporal variation in the availability of...
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The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries
Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries--in education, personal autonomy, and more--explained by underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This article discusses several mechanisms through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950770
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Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment
Squicciarini, Mara P.; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
industrial technology. …
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Catch-up and Fall-back through Innovation and Imitation
Benhabib, Jess; Perla, Jesse; Tonetti, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Will fast growing emerging economies sustain rapid growth rates until they "catch-up" to the technology frontier? Are … technology diffusion, with the productivity of imitation modeled by a catch-up function that increases with distance to the …
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The Rise and Fall of Unions in the U.S.
Greenwood, Jeremy; Dinlersoz, Emin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Union membership displayed a ∩-shaped pattern over the 20th century, while the distribution of income sketched a ∪. A model of unions is developed to analyze these phenomena. There is a distribution of firms in the economy. Firms hire capital, plus skilled and unskilled labor. Unionization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271477
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Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India
Alfaro, Laura; Chari, Anusha - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics and the reallocation of resources within industries over time. Following deregulation, we find that the extent of resource misallocation declines and a considerable thickening of...
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