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Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...

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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2016

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...

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Firm innovation under import competition from low-wage countries

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Liu, Runjuan; Tang, Rotao - 2017

-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge … in imports from China on innovation in the US manufacturing sector. We combine patent, firm and trade data during 1990 … positive effect on firm innovation, as measured by citation-weighted patent applications. This positive effect persists when we …

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Foreign competition and domestic innovation : evidence from U.S. patents

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2019

emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U ….S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure …

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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …

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Military spending and innovation : learning from 19th century world fair exhibition data

Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023

We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century …. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending … is associated with national innovation towards war logistics such as food processing, but less towards war technology …

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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation

Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009

environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and … workplace safety. -- environmental policy ; market fragmentation ; innovation : technology transfer …

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Effects of innovation on employment : a dynamic panel analysis

Lachenmaier, Stefan (contributor); … - 2007

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Persistence of innovation in Dutch manufacturing : is it spurious?

Raymond, Wladimir; Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz C.; … - 2006

This paper studies the persistence of innovation and the dynamics of innovation output in Dutch manufacturing using … firm data from three waves of the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS), pertaining to the periods 1994-1996, 1996-1998, and …

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Experience, innovation and productivity : empirical evidence from Italy's slowdown

Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - 2010

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

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