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Are intellectual property rights fair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
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Intangible knowledge capital and innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - 2013
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises - more so in domestically owned than in...
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Bidding for brains : intellectual property rights and the international migration of knowledge workers
McAusland, Carol; Kuhn, Peter Joseph - 2010
We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962794
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Consumers and the brain drain : product design and the gains from emigration
Kuhn, Peter Joseph (contributor);  … - 2008
We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers' tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design of...
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Intellectual property rights, migration, and diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2011
intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it … correlation between emigration and innovation in the presence of strong IPRs protection. -- intellectual property rights …
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On the inefficiency of inequality
Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"A number of studies have examined the implications of preference interdependence. This paper models utility as depending on other people's consumption levels and shows that welfare declines with inequality, equilibrium inequality is inefficient, and the optimal intervention leads to a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002345036
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The effect of adversity on process innovations and managerial incentives
Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2009
improving efficiency. -- Process innovation ; managerial incentives ; efficiency ; natural experiment …
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Structural change and the Kaldor facts of economic growth
Foellmi, Reto; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts of economic growth. We assume that households expand their consumption along a hierarchy of needs...
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Government subsidies as a risk-sharing policy tool in innovation investment
Lu, Hao; Fuentes, Claudia de; Milla, Joniada; Ahmadi, Soheil - 2022
Current literature on the impact assessment of government innovation subsidies is mainly empirical driven and lacks an … improve the effectiveness of government support for innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013455877
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Employer power, labor saving technical change, and inequality
Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi - 2018
How does employer power mediate the impact of labor saving technical change on inequality? This question has largely been neglected in the recent literature on the wage and distributional consequences of automation, where the labor market is assumed to be competitive. In a simple task-based...
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