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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation

Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014

that entrepreneurs with more varied work experience are more likely to introduce innovations that have not only technical …

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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature

Nathan, Max - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...

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Entrepreneurial choices of initial human capital endowments and new venture success

Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van; Folta, Timothy B.; … - 2016

The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is … known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance … consequences of a founder's choice of the initial workforce's human capital (quantity and quality), besides the human capital of …

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

Winters, John V. - 2014

This paper examines the effects of foreign- and native-born STEM graduates and non-STEM graduates on patent intensity in U.S. metropolitan areas. I find that both native and foreign-born STEM graduates significantly increase metropolitan area patent intensity, but college graduates in non-STEM...

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How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? : a study on France, Germany and the UK

Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015

This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in particular, on the contribution of migrant workers. We adopt...

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The role of entrepreneurial human capital as a driver of endogenous economic growth

Ehrlich, Isaac; Li, Dunli; Liu, Zhiqiang - 2017

We model investment in entrepreneurial human capital (EHC) - the representative enterprise's share of production capacity allocated to investment in innovative industrial and commercial knowledge - as a distinct channel through which firm-specific human capital drives endogenous growth. Our...

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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees : the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...

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Intrapreneurship or entrepreneurship?

Parker, Simon C. - 2009

I explore the factors that determine whether new business opportunities are exploited by starting a new venture for an employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06...

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Skills, tasks, and complexity

Gersbach, Hans; Schmassmann, Samuel - 2019

We introduce a new task-based framework to describe production. It focuses on the fact that certain tasks are too complex for many workers to perform. In such an environment, the relationship between wages of workers may significantly differ from their relative productivities. The labor market...

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Skills-displacing technological change and its impact on jobs: challenging technological alarmism?

McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Redmond, Paul - 2019

We use data from a new international dataset - the European Skills and Jobs Survey - to create a unique measure of skills-displacing technological change (SDT), defined as technological change that may render workers' skills obsolete. We find that 16 percent of adult workers in the EU are...

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