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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 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/10012870290
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Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness
Brown, J. David - 2009
Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to implement policies effectively and provide a supportive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765098
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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition : A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - 2021
This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard,...
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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth : Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2021
We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...
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