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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. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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Money for something : the links between research funding and innovation
Glennon, Britta; Lane, Julia; Sodhi, Ridhima - 2018
measured by patents …
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Foreign competition and domestic innovation : evidence from U.S. patents
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2019
Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector ….S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure …
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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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The times they are a-changin' : organizational change and immigrant employment opportunities in Scandinavia
Rosholm, Michael; Scott, Kirk; Husted, Leif - 2001
This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period … 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process … Sweden and Denmark experienced similar declines in employment prospects between 1985 and 1995 despite quite different …
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Flexibility at a cost : should governments stimulate tertiary education for adults?
Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - 2015
Most OECD countries experience high unemployment rates and declining growth in higher educational attainment. An often suggested government policy is therefore to allocate resources towards formal schooling for adults. However, returns on such investments are uncertain and the foregone earnings...
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A note on evaluating formal education for adults
Stenberg, Anders - 2022
-time registered in AE in Sweden 1994-2008 with at least a 10-year follow-up period. The results indicate substantially higher payoffs …
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Do inventors talk to strangers? : on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2013
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
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The effect of (mostly unskilled) immigration on the innovation of Italian regions
Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Chiara - 2014
We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation …
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Jobless growth through creative destruction: Ireland's industrial development path 1972 - 2003
Li, Qi (contributor); Walsh, Patrick Paul (contributor);  … - 2007
We document the nature of structural changes in employment to understand "jobless" growth in Irish Manufacturing in the aftermath of EEC/EU membership, 1972-2003. By 1972, forty years of protectionism and fifteen years of export promotion induced the coexistence of large exporting plants with...
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