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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 … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986036
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Firm size and innovation in the service sector
Audretsch, David B.; Hafenstein, Marian; Kritikos, Alexander - 2018
), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958696
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Innovative work practices, information technologies and working conditions : evidence for France
Askenazy, Philippe (contributor); Caroli, Eve (contributor) - 2006
"We investigate the impact of new work practices and information and communication technologies (ICT) on working conditions in France. We use a unique French dataset providing information on individual workers for the year 1998. New work practices include the use of quality norms, job rotation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375233
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The economics of Prozac : do employees really gain from strong employment protection?
Wasmer, Etienne (contributor) - 2006
Unlike many other contracts, employment contracts are subject to various external administrative procedures governing separations, ranging from compulsory severance payments and advance notice periods (usually seniority based), to collective layoff procedures (usually depending on the firm's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003500319
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The value of working conditions in the United States and implications for the structure of wages
Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; Powell, David; … - 2018
This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of stated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946821
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Employment protection, technology choice, and worker allocation
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Gautier, Pieter; Wind, Joris de - 2010
Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959174
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High-technology entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2011
The economic expansion of the late 1990s created many opportunities for business creation in Silicon Valley, but the opportunity cost of starting a business was also high during this period because of the exceptionally tight labor market. A new measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307572
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The value of hiring through referrals
Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - 2013
; worker selection ; innovation ; patents ; cognitive ability ; non-cognitive ability ; job testing ; call centers ; high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740343
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Sorting in the labor market : do gregarious workers flock to interactive jobs?
Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Schkade, David (contributor) - 2007
This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with different attributes based on their preferences for those attributes. We present evidence from four new time-use data sets for the United States and France on whether workers who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003579983
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The third worker : assessing the trade-off between employees and contractors
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
Firms make labour demand decisions not only between permanent and non-permanent employees but also increasingly more between employees and contractors. Indeed, this third work format can be attractive, also when employment protection law is restrictive. This paper examines empirically this...
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