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Welfare Analysis in a Schumpeterian Growth Model with Capital
Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok; Reinthaler, Volker - 2001
In this note we compare the laissez-faire steady-state solution in the Howitt and Aghion (1998) model to the social optimum. The analysis offers several new insights in comparison to the welfare analysis in Aghion and Howitt (1992). We find various new distortions between private and optimal...
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Outsourcing and technological innovations: a firm-level analysis
Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2008
This paper presents a dynamic model that analyzes how firms' expectations with regards to technological change influence the demand for outsourcing. We show that outsourcing becomes more beneficial to the firm when technology is changing rapidly. As the pace of innovations in production...
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Outsourcing and technological change
Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2009
problems, we use an exogenous proxy for technological change, namely the number of patents granted by the U.S. patent office …
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The job creation effect of R&D expenditures
Bogliacino, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - 2010
In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel estimations of a demand-for-labour equation augmented with technology. We find that R&D...
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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 …
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Co-determination and innovation
Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - 2009
This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...
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Why don't women patent?
Hunt, Jennifer; Garant, Jean-Philippe; Herman, Hannah; … - 2012
scarcely more likely to patent than women without. Differences among those without a science or engineering degree account for …
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 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 …
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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2020
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180187