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Creativity over time and space
Serafinelli, Michel; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2019
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119562
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The effect of high-tech clusters on the productivity of top inventors
Moretti, Enrico - 2019
The high-tech sector is increasingly concentrated in a small number of expensive cities, with the top ten cities in "Computer Science", "Semiconductors" and "Biology and Chemistry", accounting for 70%, 79% and 59% of inventors, respectively. Why do inventors tend to locate near other inventors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012116638
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Determinants and policy simulation of firms cooperation in innovation
Heshmati, Almas; Lenz-Cesar, Flávio - 2013
manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to empirical findings on the Korean Innovation Survey 2005 …' likelihood to participate in cooperation with other organizations when conducting innovation activities. These determinants are … cooperation in innovation. The findings indicate possible appropriate (or non-appropriate) policy strategies to be applied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766256
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Immigration and innovation : evidence from Canadian cities
Blit, Joel; Skuterud, Mikal; Zhang, Jue - 2017
Canadian immigrants to innovation is, in large part, explained by the low employment rates of Canadian STEM-educated immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641430
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The effect of adversity on process innovations and managerial incentives
Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2009
incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous … improving efficiency. -- Process innovation ; managerial incentives ; efficiency ; natural experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863657
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COVID-19 employment status impacts on food sector workers
Cho, Seung Jin; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020
Food production and distribution is essential for human well-being, but the food sector has experienced a number of difficulties maintaining worker health and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine employment status changes of persons recently employed in the U.S. food sector with...
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Geographic proximity, trade and international conflict/cooperation
Robst, John (contributor); Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2006
This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283434
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Racial harassment, ethnic concentration and economic conditions
Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca; Preston, Ian - 2010
In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities, and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: hostility in attitudes of majority individuals that find expression in harassment behaviour, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958857
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A simple theory of industry location and residence choice
Borck, Rainald (contributor); Pflüger, Michael (contributor) - 2007
This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explains people’s choice of residences in space and the location of industry. Residences are chosen on the basis of the utility which mobile households obtain across locations. The spatial pattern of industry is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608325
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Determinants of employer-provided further training : a multi-level approach
Bellmann, Lutz; Hohendanner, Christian; Hujer, Reinhard - 2010
We analyse the influence of regional determinants on the decision of employers to provide within-firm further training. We estimate the effects of the regional population density, the unemployment rate and the regional concentration of an industry against the background of several determinants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153569