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Adams, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

same, not oppo- site effect on wages at both skill levels; a rise in the foreign share in world innovation or US patents … decreases US wages; an increase in the US share in world innovation or US patents raises US wages, especially for the less … skilled; and the stock of world innovation and US patents decreases real wages especially for the less skilled. Turning to the …

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The Growing Allocative Inefficiency of the U.S. Higher Education Sector

Adams, James; Clemmons, J. Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper presents new evidence on research and teaching productivity in universities using a panel of 102 top U.S. schools during 1981-1999. Faculty employment grows at 0.6 percent per year, compared with growth of 4.9 percent in industrial researchers. Productivity growth per researcher is...

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Science and Industry: Tracing the Flow of Basic Research through Manufacturing and Trade

Adams, James; Clemmons, Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper describes flows of basic research through the U.S. economy and explores their implications for scientific output at the industry and field level. The time period is the late 20th century. This paper differs from others in its use of measures of science rather than technology. Together...

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Scientific Teams and Institution Collaborations: Evidence from U.S. Universities, 1981-1999

Adams, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

This paper explores recent trends in the size of scientific teams and in institutional collaborations. The data derive from 2.4 million scientific papers written in 110 leading U.S. research universities over the period 1981-1999. We measure team size by the number of authors on a scientific...

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The NBER-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database: Form, Nature, and Function

Adams, James; Clemmons, J. Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This article is a guide to the NBER-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database, which includes more than 2.5 million scientific publications and over 21 million citations to those papers. The data cover an important sample of 110 top U.S. universities and 200 top U.S.-based R&D-performing firms...

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How Rapidly Does Science Leak Out?

Adams, James; Stephan, Paula E.; Clemmons, J. Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

In science as well as technology, the diffusion of new ideas influences innovation and productive efficiency. With this …

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Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production

Alfaro, Laura; Chen, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Assessing the productivity gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and...

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Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? An Empirical Investigation

Alfaro, Laura; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Volosovych, Vadym - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

We examine the empirical role of different explanations for the lack of flows of capital from rich to poor countries the "Lucas Paradox." The theoretical explanations include differences in fundamentals across countries and capital market imperfections. We show that during 1970-2000 low...

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Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows, and Global Imbalances

Alfaro, Laura; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Volosovych, Vadym - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We construct measures of net private and public capital flows for a large cross-section of developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we demonstrate that sovereign-to-sovereign transactions account for upstream...

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Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences

Alfaro, Laura; Kanczuk, Fabio; Charlton, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We investigate, using plant-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a standard version of the...

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