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We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
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This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
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This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …
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incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous …
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Canadian immigrants to innovation is, in large part, explained by the low employment rates of Canadian STEM-educated immigrants …
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structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for …
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summarized by Wei, Xie, and Zhang (2017) that focus on directly observable aspects of innovation (R&D, patent activity, etc …We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production …
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Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades …, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth … in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. To restore inclusive growth, two broad policy measures are …
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Matched worker-firm data from Danish manufacturing reveal that 1) industries differ in within-firm worker skill dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher average skill dispersion. We argue that these patterns...
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The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …
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