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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 …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892563
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Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation : Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2016
entrepreneurs have fixed-time endowments to run their daily operations. As firms grow larger, the need to delegate decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000531
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Firm Entry and Exit and Aggregate Growth
Asturias, Jose - 2017
Using data from Chile and Korea, we find that a larger fraction of aggregate productivity growth is due to firm entry and exit during fast-growth episodes compared to slow-growth episodes. Studies of other countries confirm this empirical relationship. We develop a model of endogenous firm entry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962176
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Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2010
This paper examines the frequency, pervasiveness and determinants of product switching among U.S. manufacturing firms. We find that two-thirds of firms alter their mix of five-digit SIC products every five years, that one-third of the increase in real U.S. manufacturing shipments between 1972...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761345
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Entrant Experience and Plant Exit
Dunne, Timothy - 2010
Producers entering a market can differ widely in their prior production experience, ranging from none to extensive experience in related geographic or product markets. In this paper, we quantify the nature of prior plant and firm experience for entrants into a market and measure its effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762694
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Product Choice and Product Switching
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - 2021
This paper develops a model of endogenous product selection by firms. The theory is motivated by new evidence we present on the importance of product switching by U.S. manufacturers. Two-thirds of continuing firms change their product mix every five years, and product switches involve more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235862
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Nominal Exchange Rate Patterns : Correlationswith Entry, Exit, and Invesment in U.S. Industry
Goldberg, Linda S. - 2021
The view that the strength of the dollar in the early 1980s was associated with persistent restructuring of United States industry is supported by correlations between exchange rate patterns and data on business formation, business failure and sectoral investment in new plant and equipment....
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High Tech Firms in Israeli Industry
Bregman, Arie - 2010
The main purpose of this study is to characterize and analyze high technology industrial firms in Israel. We are able to advance beyond previous empirical studies of high technology because we have access to a unique individual firm data set, a sample of 670 establishments in Israel for the year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139348
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310802
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Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment
Levine, Ross - 2018
differentiates between entrepreneurs and other self-employed to address puzzling gaps that have emerged between theory and evidence … on entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts—and the data confirm—that entrepreneurs are positively selected on … highly-remunerated human capital, but other self-employed are negatively selected on those same abilities; entrepreneurs are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906767