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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 … inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …

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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2020

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of knowledge across nations. …

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Intangible knowledge capital and innovation in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - 2013

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the "middle … income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese …

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Institutions and economic performance : what can be explained?

Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko - 2010

Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...

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Top team diversity and business performance : latent class analysis for firms and cities

Nathan, Max - 2014

A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little understood. Second, urban location may amplify...

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Cross-country differences in productivity : the role of allocation and selection

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, … - 2009

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...

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Corruption in the health sector : evidence from unofficial consultation fees in Bangladesh

Abdallah, Wahid; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Iqbal, Kazi - 2015

We study the incidence and extent of bribes paid to the doctors in the public health facilities which are cleverly identified using a nationally representative survey. The survey asks households about the fees paid to public doctors, not about the bribe, which makes it less prone to reporting...

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Do entrepreneurs matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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Firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions in an open economy

Cosar, A. Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James R. - 2013

This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...

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The fall of the labor share and the rise of superstar firms

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - 2017

The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...

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