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Determinants of business success : an examination of Asian-owned businesses in the United States

Robb, Alicia M. (contributor); … - 2007

"Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of at least $10,000, and 27.2 percent more likely to hire employees than white-owned businesses in...

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The recent economic performance of Ukrainian immigrants in Canada and the US

Pivnenko, Sergiy (contributor); DeVoretz, Don J. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Why do leaders matter? : the role of expert knowledge

Goodall, Amanda H. (contributor); … - 2008

Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders' characteristics. We show that a strong predictor of...

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How successful have trade unions been? : a utility-based indicator of union well-being

Pencavel, John H. (contributor) - 2008

Can conventional economic analysis help in defining and measuring the success of labor unions? In this paper, a general indicator of union welfare is proposed and particular expressions for the wage and employment objectives of unions are rearranged to derive measures of union success or...

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Why don't women patent?

Hunt, Jennifer; Garant, Jean-Philippe; Herman, Hannah; … - 2012

We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap in patenting rates is accounted for by women's lower probability of holding any...

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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2013

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

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Foreign and native-born STEM graduates and innovation intensity in the United States

Winters, John V. - 2014

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

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Opening up military innovation: causal effects of "bottom-up" reforms to U.S. defense research

Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021

the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …

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Beyond EU-US trade dynamics : TTIP effects related to foreign direct investment and innovation

Jungmittag, Andre; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2017

trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although … knowledge production function has to be considered in order to analyze FDI and innovation dynamics - and this can then be linked …. Time series data analysis for Germany indicates additionally that FDI induced higher innovation dynamics will raise output …

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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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