for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regional …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …

We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network … matters for friendship ties but that structural network variables are important in all network dimensions. Importantly, these … effects are not invariant across different network dimensions. We also find that individual characteristics are unrelated with …

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise because workers typically do not … friction affects network formation, while the second coordination friction affects network clearing. We show that those … that can arise and the number of matches on a given network. Equilibria that exhibit wage dispersion are inefficient in …

embedded in a family network. Eligible but isolated households do not respond. The mechanism through which the extended family … influences household schooling choices is the redistribution of resources within the family network from eligibles that receive …

migrants form social links among them and the extent to which this network provides them with material support along three …

strength of a network by its likelihood of providing a job offer. Using a theoretical model we show that the wage differential … in jobs found using networks versus those found using formal channels, decreases as the network becomes stronger. We … verify this result for recent immigrants to Canada for whom a strong network is captured by the presence of a 'close tie …