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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

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To be born is not enough : the key role of innovative startups

Colombelli, Alessandra; Krafft, Jackie; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016

greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key …

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The anatomy of Chinese innovation : insights on patent quality and ownership

Boeing, Philipp; Brandt, Loren; Dai, Ruochen; Lim, Kevin; … - 2024

We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights. First, average patent importance declined from...

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Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high-tech sector

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

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Childcare, eldercare, and labor force participation of married women in urban China: 1982 - 2000

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Chen, Lan; … - 2009

We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...

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Explaining rising returns to education in urban China in the 1990s

Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - 2010

Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively skill-deficit countries, in recent decades many developing countries have experienced rising wage premiums for skilled workers. We examines this puzzle by quantifying the...

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Are China's ethnic minorities less likely to move?

Gustafsson, Björn; Yang, Xiuna - 2015

This study uses China's Inter-Census Survey 2005 to analyse the extent migration behaviour among 14 large ethnic minority groups and the Han majority. Results show that the probability to migrate to all types of destinations varies by province of origin, decreases by age, and in most cases, by...

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The effects of the state sector on wage inequality in urban China : 1988 - 2007

Xia, Qingjie; Song, Lina; Li, Shi; Appleton, Simon - 2013

This paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household Income Project surveys, we conduct two exercises: with quantile regression analysis, we identify wage gaps across the distribution and over time; and we employ the Machado and...

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Party membership and state jobs in urban China

Ma, Yuanyuan; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2013

The "dual-track approach" for transition would have to be facilitated by an endogenous movement of workers away from the state into private jobs. Yet, using the Chinese Household Income Project Series (CHIPs) data for the year 2002, we document preferences and premiums for state jobs in urban...

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The role of coresidency with adult children in the labor force participation decisions of older men and women in China

Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged - rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...

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