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Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...

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Entrepreneurship, self-employment and business data : an introduction to several large, nationally-representative datasets

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2009

Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More information including estimates of recent...

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Does local business ownership insulate cities from economic shocks?

Kolko, Jed; Neumark, David - 2009

We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses - namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...

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Human resources and innovation : total factor productivity and foreign human capital

Fassio, Claudio; Kalantaryan, Sona; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015

The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries - France, Germany and the United Kingdom … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

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Political connections, business groups and innovation

Commander, Simon; Estrin, Saul; Silva, Thamashi de - 2023

non-affiliates, this is unsurprising given their access to additional resources. However, when we look at innovation at … the country level, we find that the wider consequences of BGs on innovation may be negative. …

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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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Living wage laws : how much do (can) they matter?

Holzer, Harry J. (contributor) - 2008

In this paper I review what we have learned about living wage laws and their impacts on the wages, employment and poverty rates of low-wage workers. I review the characteristics of these laws and where they have been implemented to date, and what economic theory tells us about their likely...

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A comparison of the poverty impact of transfers, taxes and market income across five OECD countries

Bibi, Sami (contributor); Duclos, Jean-Yves (contributor) - 2008

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...

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Taxes, cigarette consumption and smoking intensity

Adda, Jérôme (contributor); … - 2005

This paper analyses the compensatory behavior of smokers. Exploiting data on cotinine concentration a metabolite of nicotine measured in a large population of smokers over time, we show that smokers compensate tax hikes by extracting more nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important...

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An analysis of the impact of affirmative action programs on self-employment in the construction industry

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2005

The main findings of this paper are that despite the existence of various affirmative action programs designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction, little has changed in the last twenty five years. We present evidence showing that where race conscious...

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