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This paper develops a dynamic Heckscher Ohlin Samuelson model with sector-specific human capital and overlapping generations to characterize the dynamics and welfare implications of gradual labor market adjustment to trade. Our model is tractable enough to yield sharp analytic results, that...
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We use detailed information on individual absent spells of all employees in 4,140 firms in Denmark to document large differences across firms in average absenteeism. Using employees who switch firms, we decompose days absent into an individual component (e.g., motivation, work ethic) and a firm...
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Using a representative sample of the Swedish male population from 1966 to 2006, we study which "skills" make it easier for individuals to cope with major economic and social changes. We distinguish between social and cognitive skills and investigate how they differentially affect the incentives...
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innovation, growth, and strategic renewal opportunities for established firms. However, despite the popularity of CVC units, the … theory of the firm to argue that innovation performance relative to aspirations is a crucial driver of its decision to pursue … likely to terminate a CVC unit when its innovation performance is closets to its aspiration levels. Furthermore, innovation …
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Today, ‘innovation' is a priority all over the world, particularly in emerging markets. The President of India declared … this decade the ‘Innovation Decade'. In emerging markets the word means much more than catching up by imitating innovative … policies and firms from more developed economies. Some called it Reverse Innovation, meaning that it originates in places other …
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This paper is concerned with the multitude of interleaving issues which emerge when engaging multiple stakeholders in decision making. Whilst recognising the intrinsic values of group work (including shared views, wide option selection, public spirited focus, legitimacy of decisions and improved...
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While the contributions of immigrants from Chinese, Indian and Latin American backgrounds to the US innovation system … US innovation system. This paper provides a critical survey of the extent people from the MENA region contribute to the … US innovation system.Matching 2,500 MENA specific first names with patent documents from the World International Property …
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contractible or when we preclude cooperation in long-term relationships, (ii) the rate of innovation in the cooperative equilibrium … period). In that case, for sufficiently slow diffusion, the innovation rate in the cooperative equilibrium may be higher than …
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We examine the impact of financial reporting on corporate innovation. We find that firms that exhibit more conservative … effects of conservative financial reporting on innovation are more pronounced when firms have greater need for innovation … conservative financial reporting curbs corporate innovation by exacerbating the effects of managerial myopia. Our results are …
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