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, Engineering and Mathematics - workers and the level of the firm and firm- and city-/regional-level innovation in Germany. It also … creative workers to innovation is limited to the boundaries of the firm, whereas that of STEM workers is as associated to the … generation of considerable innovation spillovers. Hence, attracting STEM workers is more likely to end up making German cities …
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We study the impact of social ties on the migration of inventors from East to West Germany, using the fall of the Iron Curtain and German reunification as a natural experiment. We identify East German inventors via their patenting track records prior to 1990 and their social security records in...
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