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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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Inventors' coworker networks and innovation

Di Addario, Sabrina; Feng, Zhexin; Serafinelli, Michel - 2024

This paper presents direct evidence on how firms' innovation is affected by access to knowledgeable labor through co-worker network connections. We use a unique dataset that matches patent data to administrative employer - employee records from "Third Italy" - a region with many successful...

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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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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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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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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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Artificial intelligence and workers' well-being

Giuntella, Osea; König, Johannes; Stella, Luca - 2023

This study explores the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and workers' well-being and mental health using longitudinal survey data from Germany (2000-2020). We construct a measure of individual exposure to AI technology based on the occupation in which workers in our sample were...

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