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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262329
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Management of knowledge workers
Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283985
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Bidding for brains: Intellectual property rights and the international migration of knowledge workers
McAusland, Carol; Kuhn, Peter - 2010
We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269771
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Management of Knowledge Workers
Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757344
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762372
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Intellectual property rights, migration, and diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2011
intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it … correlation between emigration and innovation in the presence of strong IPRs protection. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278572
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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it … correlation between emigration and innovation in the presence of strong IPRs protection. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225768
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Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers
McAusland, Carol; Kuhn, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506069
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The International Migration of Knowledge Workers: When Is Brain Drain Beneficial?
Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, and show that the remaining residents of a country can gain from emigration, even when tastes for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566571
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How much does immigration boost innovation?
Hunt, Jennifer; Gauthier-Loiselle, Marjolaine - 2009
We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual … immigrants patent at double the native rate, and that this is entirely accounted for by their disproportionately holding degrees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269300