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Religious tolerance as engine of innovation
Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - 2017
We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological creativity and innovation. In particular, we show that variations in innovation within Prussia during the second industrial revolution can be ascribed to differences in religious...
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Military spending and innovation : learning from 19th century world fair exhibition data
Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023
is associated with national innovation towards war logistics such as food processing, but less towards war technology …
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Immigrant entrepreneurship
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...
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Labor supply and automation innovation
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Gäßler, Fabian - 2020
While economic theory suggests substitutability between labor and capital, little evidence exists regarding the causal effect of labor supply on inventing labor-saving technologies. We analyze the impact of exogenous changes in regional labor supply on automation innovation by exploiting an...
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel … estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …
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Processing immigration shocks : firm responses on the innovation margin
Gray, Rowena; Montresor, Giulia; Wright, Greg C. - 2017
The extent to which firms respond to labor supply shocks has important implications for local and national economies. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the large, low-skill labor supply (immigration) shock generated...
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Immigrants' contribution to innovativeness : evidence from a non-selective immigration country
Candel-Haug, Katharina; Cuntz, Alexander; Falck, Oliver - 2018
The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and significant spillover effect of the immigrants on the number of...
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Knowledge remittances : does emigration foster innovation?
Fackler, Thomas; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018
anymore, they contribute to cross-border knowledge and technology diffusion and thus help less advanced countries to catch up … to the technology frontier. …
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Growth and the geography of knowledge
Aloi, Marta; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; Tournemaine, … - 2018
We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography, growth and regional inequality. We provide conditions for existence and uniqueness of a spatial equilibrium, and for the endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial...
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Technology gaps, trade and income
Sampson, Thomas - 2019
This paper studies the origins and consequences of international technology gaps. I develop an endogenous growth model … where R&D efficiency varies across countries and productivity differences emerge from firm-level technology investments. The … theory characterizes how innovation and learning determine technology gaps, trade and global income inequality. Countries …
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