-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance … on rare "high-impact metrics" (e.g. creating patents and avoiding truck accidents), despite having similar …

-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance … on rare high-impact metrics (e.g. creating patents and avoiding truck accidents), despite having similar characteristics …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

are used to compare the number of patents granted to co-determined firms before and after the introduction of the law …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …