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Conveying Quality and Value in Emerging Industries : Star Scientists and the Role of Learning in Biotechnology
Higgins, Matthew John - 2015
during two important initial public offerings (IPO) windows (1989 to 1992 and 1996 to 2000). We also examine whether there …
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What Accounts for the Rising Sophistication of China's Exports?
Wang, Zhi - 2010
Chinese exports have become increasingly sophisticated. This has generated anxiety in developed countries as competitive pressure may increasingly be felt outside labor-intensive industries. Using product-level data on exports from different cities within China, this paper investigates the...
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Stakes and Stars : the Effect of Intellectual Human Capital on the Level and Variability of High-Tech Firms' Market Values
Darby, Michael R.; Liu, Qiao; Zucker, Lynne G. - 2021
High-tech firms are built much more on the intellectual capital of key personnel than on physical assets, and firms built around the best scientists are most likely to be successful in commercializing breakthrough technologies. As a result, such firms are expected to have higher market values...
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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...
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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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The U.S. Left Behind : The Rise of IPO Activity Around the World
Doidge, Craig - 2011
During the past two decades, there has been a dramatic change in IPO activity around the world. Though vibrant IPO … activity, attributed to better institutions and governance, used to be a strength of the U.S., it no longer is. IPO activity in … importance of the U.S. In the early 1990s, the declining U.S. IPO share was due to the extraordinary growth of IPOs in foreign …
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The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2013
Over the last 50 years, there has been a remarkable convergence in the occupational distribution between white men, women, and blacks. We measure the macroeconomic consequences of this convergence through the prism of a Roy model of occupational choice in which women and blacks face frictions in...
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Understanding the Evolution of the U.S. Wage Distribution : A Theoretical Analysis
Guvenen, Fatih - 2007
In this paper we present an analytically tractable overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation, and study its implications for the evolution of the U.S. wage distribution from 1970 to 2000. The key feature of the model, and the only source of heterogeneity, is that individuals...
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A Quantitative Analysis of the Evolution of the U.S. Wage Distribution : 1970-2000
Guvenen, Fatih - 2010
In this paper, we construct a parsimonious overlapping-generations model of human capital accumulation and study its quantitative implications for the evolution of the U.S. wage distribution from 1970 to 2000. A key feature of the model is that individuals differ in their ability to accumulate...
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