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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Kerr, William - 2014

This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has … between productivity and exports, and exploiting heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant communities in the United …

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Highway to Success : The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014

We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector …

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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. While the secular trend for India's manufacturing …

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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014

We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We … ownership among incumbent businesses within a district-industry predicts a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be … district-industry's conditions. The core patterns hold when using local industrial conditions in 1994 to instrument for …

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What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns

Ellison, Glenn - 2010

1997 to compute pairwise coagglomeration measurements for U.S. manufacturing industries. Industry attributes are used to … construct measures of the relevance of each of Marshall's three theories of industry agglomeration to each industry pair: (1 …

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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

Autor, David H. - 2010

Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical...

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What U.S. Data Should Be Used to Measure the Price Elasticity of Demand for Alcohol?

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2016

This paper examines how estimates of the price elasticity of demand for beer vary with the choice of alcohol price series examined. Our most important finding is that the commonly used ACCRA price data are unlikely to reliably indicate alcohol demand elasticities--estimates obtained from this...

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Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity

Foley, C. Fritz - 2016

This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's...

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House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data

Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2015

We use Census micro data to shed new light on how growth in house prices boosts US entrepreneurship. At the height of the 2007 real estate boom, 5% of self-employed individuals and 12% of employer-businesses used home equity to partly or wholly finance a new business. Despite this frequency,...

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Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms

Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2014

We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are...

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