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Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration
Freeman, Richard B.; Ganguli, Ina; Murciano-Goroff, Raviv - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper examines international and domestic collaborations using data from an original survey of corresponding authors and Web of Science data of articles that had at least one US coauthor in the fields of Particle and Field Physics, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Biotechnology and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271483
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Imperfect Substitution between Immigrants and Natives: A Reappraisal
Borjas, George; Grogger, Jeffrey T.; Hanson, Gordon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
In a recent paper, Ottaviano and Peri (2007a) report evidence that immigrant and native workers are not perfect substitutes within narrowly defined skill groups. The resulting complementarities have important policy implications because immigration may then raise the wage of many native-born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830921
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Mobile Scientists and International Networks
Stephan, Paula E.; Scellato, Giuseppe; Franzoni, Chiara - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper explores the link between mobility and the presence of international research networks. Data come from the GlobSci survey of authors of articles published in 2009 in four fields of science working in sixteen countries. Summary evidence suggests that migration plays an important role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950868
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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan G.; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951263
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Immigrants' and Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data
Peri, Giovanni; Foged, Mette - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
effects on native unskilled wages, employment and occupational mobility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210994
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The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F.; Mishra, Prachi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998-2006. Our data exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii) lobbying status is highly persistent over time....
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A Spatial Knowledge Economy
Davis, Donald R.; Dingel, Jonathan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Leading empiricists and theorists of cities have recently argued that the generation and exchange of ideas must play a more central role in the analysis of cities. This paper develops the first system of cities model with costly idea exchange as the agglomeration force. Our model replicates a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010553382
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Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
Foley, C. Fritz; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251495
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A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Eriksson, Katherine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
negatively-selected return migrants. We show that assimilation patterns vary substantially across sending countries and persist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227919
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Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession
Cadena, Brian C.; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
employment losses that occurred during Great Recession, and our results confirm the standard finding that high …-skilled populations are quite geographically responsive to employment opportunities while low-skilled populations are much less so … Mexican-born workforce reduced the incidence of local demand shocks on low-skilled natives' employment outcomes by roughly 40 …
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