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Management of knowledge workers
Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
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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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Filling the gap : the consequences of collaborator loss in corporate R&D
Poege, Felix; Gäßler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022
We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...
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Are intellectual property rights fair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...
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Immigrant-native differences in welfare participation : the role of entry and exit rates
Hansen, Jörgen (contributor); Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor) - 2006
; labor market behavior ; transition ; state dependence …
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …
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Micro-evidence on product and labor market regime differences between Chile and France
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Lauterbach, Rodolfo; Mairesse, Jacques - 2015
simultaneously product and labor market imperfections, this paper quantifies industry differences in both types of imperfections … Hall's econometric framework for estimating price-cost margins by nesting three labor market settings (perfect competition … market imperfections. Consistent with differences in institutions and in the industrial relations system in the two countries …
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Improving the peer review process : a proposed market system
Frijters, Paul; Torgler, Benno - 2016
-preserving system based on an open two-sided market in which buyers and sellers of peer review services would both be subject to a set … such an open market in which all elements are subject to peer review will over time lead to specialized reviewers in … market set-up would both professionalize the peer review process and make it completely transparent, an innovation long …
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On market forces and human evolution
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
, and to offset their weaknesses by purchasing adequate goods on the market. Absent trade, people must allocate their time …
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The economics of assisted reproduction
Kossoudji, Sherrie A. (contributor) - 2005
Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can't produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...
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