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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries

Doran, Kirk; Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We study the effect of a firm winning an additional H-1B visa on the firm’s outcomes, by comparing winning and losing firms in the Fiscal Year 2006 and 2007 H-1B visa lotteries. We match administrative data on the participants in these lotteries to the universe of approved U.S. patents, and to...

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Making Do With Less: Working Harder During Recessions

Lazear, Edward; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Stanton, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

There are two obvious possibilities that can account for the rise in productivity during recent recessions. The first … 2006 to May 2010 on individual worker productivity from a large firm, it is possible to measure the increase in … productivity due to effort and sorting. For this firm, the second effect--that workers' effort increases--dominates the first …

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Business Cycle Fluctuations and the Life Cycle: How Important is On-The-Job Skill Accumulation?

Hansen, Gary; Imrohoroglu, Selo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We study the effects of on-the-job skill accumulation on average hours worked by age and the volatility of hours over the life cycle in a calibrated general equilibrium model. Two forms of skill accumulation are considered: learning by doing and on-the-job training. In our economy with learning...

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Creative Destruction and Subjective Wellbeing

Deaton, Angus; Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Roulet, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

In this paper we analyze the relationship between turnover-driven growth and subjective wellbeing, using cross-sectional MSA level US data. We find that the effect of creative destruction on wellbeing is (i) unambiguously positive if we control for MSA-level unemployment, less so if we do not;...

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An Empirical Examination of Patent Hold-up

Galetovic, Alexander; Levine, Ross; Haber, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

A large literature asserts that standard essential patents (SEPs) allow their owners to “hold up” innovation by … innovation in SEP-reliant industries. We find no empirical support for either prediction. Indeed, SEP-reliant industries have the …

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Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules

Graff Zivin, Joshua; Azoulay, Pierre; Li, Danielle; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to develop a method for flexibly linking specific grant...

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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors

Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...

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Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act

Moser, Petra; Voena, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Compulsory licensing allows firms in developing countries to produce foreign-owned inventions without the consent of foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensing after World War I under the Trading with the Enemy Act to examine the long run effects of...

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The Role of Search in University Productivity: Inside, Outside, and Interdisciplinary Dimensions

Adams, James; Clemmons, J. Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Due to improving information technology, the growing complexity of research problems, and policies designed to foster interdisciplinary research, the practice of science in the United States has undergone significant structural change. Using a sample of 110 top U.S. universities observed during...

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University-Industry Spillovers, Government Funding, and Industrial Consulting

Jensen, Richard; Thursby, Jerry; Thursby, Marie C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This paper presents a theoretical model of faculty consulting in the context of government and industry funding for research within the university, which then frames an empirical analysis of the funding and consulting of 458 individual faculty inventors from 8 major US universities. In the...

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