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contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous … driven by knowledge flows that are triggered by emigrants. While skilled migrants are not inventing in their home country … anymore, they contribute to cross-border knowledge and technology diffusion and thus help less advanced countries to catch up …
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allowing to disentangle various mechanisms such as the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs as well as … productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence …
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We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We document that both earnings and income are more concentrated among entrepreneurs than among workers and describe a large-scale overlapping-generations model that can replicate...
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variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull …
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
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theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic … test the theory with original and matched parent and affiliate data on the level of decentralization of 660 Austrian and …
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This paper studies structural change in production networks for intermediate inputs (input-output network) and new … networks along the balanced growth path to study these trends. Disaggregated final expenditure data reveal that inputs to …
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In this paper, we develop a network perspective on the welfare gains from trade in today’s internationally fragmented supply chains. Towards this end, we study a Ricardian trade model featuring trade in final and intermediate products, and introduce a novel comparative statics approach to...
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assessment of theoretical models that aim to identify the determinants of firm-to-firm networks …
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In this paper, we propose a novel approach to the study of international trade that leads to a measure of country openness that is quite different from the various alternatives proposed by the received literature. In contrast to these, our measure does not use indicators of aggregate trade...
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