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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 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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Regions, Resources, and Economic Geography : Sources of U.S. Regional Comparative Advantage, 1880-1987
Kim, Sukkoo - 2022
This paper estimates the Rybczynski equation matrix for the twenty two-digit U.S." manufacturing industries for various years between 1880 and 1987. As predicted by the standard" general equilibrium theory of interregional trade, the regression estimates show that a consistent" set of factor...
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Interindustry R&D Spillovers, Rates of Return, and Production in High-Tech Industries
Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 2010
This paper presents estimates of the productivity and factor bias effects of interindustry Ramp;D spillovers for five high-tech industries. Each industry is distinguished as a separate spillover source. The industries are each affected by Ramp;D spillovers and are themselves spillover sources....
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Of Time and Space : Technological Spillovers Among Patents and Unpatented Innovations During Early U.S. Industrialization
Khan, B. Zorina - 2014
The paper explores the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The estimation is over panel datasets of patent grants, and unpatented innovations that were submitted for prizes at the annual industrial fairs of the American Institute of New York, during...
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The Wealth of Cities : Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States
Glaeser, Edward L.; Gottlieb, Joshua D. - 2021
Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assumed to be indifferent across space. This condition implies that research on cities is different from research on countries, and that work on places within countries needs to consider population,...
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Anatomy of the Beginning of the Housing Boom : U.S. Neighborhoods and Metropolitan Areas, 1993-2009
Ferreira, Fernando V. - 2015
We provide novel estimates of the timing, magnitudes, and potential determinants of the start of the last housing boom across American neighborhoods and metropolitan areas (MSAs) using a rich new micro data set containing 23 million housing transactions in 94 metropolitan areas between 1993 and...
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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016
Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and...
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High-Tech Capital Formation and Labor Composition in U.S. Manufacturing Industries : An Exploratory Analysis
Berndt, Ernst R.; Morrison Paul, Catherine J.; … - 2022
In this paper we report results of an exploratory empirical effort examining relationships between investments in high-tech information technology capital and the distribution of employment, both by occupation and by level of educational attainment. Our data cover the two-digit U.S....
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The Challenge to U.S. Leadership in High-Technology Industries (Can the United States Maintain its Lead? Should it Try?)
McCulloch, Rachel - 2021
The United States emerged from World War II as the acknowledged global leader in basic science and its industrial application. While U.S. science has been able to maintain that preeminence in most areas, the nation's technological lead has met increasingly formidable challenges from abroad....
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Local Deficits and Local Jobs : Can U.S. States Stabilize Their Own Economies?
Carlino, Gerald A. - 2013
Using a sample of the 48 mainland U.S. states for the period 1973-2009, we study the ability of U.S. states to expand own state employment through the use of state deficit policies. The analysis allows for the facts that U.S. states are part of a wider monetary and economic union with free...
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