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scientists and engineers without asking whether the educational system provides that supply response necessary for these … illustrate the path not taken, the paper considers specific programs that could increase the numbers of scientists and engineers …
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This paper assesses whether delays in obtaining permanent residency status can explain recent declines in the share of Chinese and Indian PhD graduates from US STEM programs who remain in the US after their studies. We find that newly-binding limits on permanent visas for those from China and...
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This paper analyzes the effects of top nanoscale scientists on industry entry in the comparative context of 5 major …
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(1) The U.S. share of the world's science and engineering graduates is declining rapidly as European and Asian universities, particularly from China, have increased S&E degrees while US degree production has stagnated
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for scientists related to defense such as physicists and aeronautical engineers. Because of the higher wages, conventional … scientists and engineers even for firms not receiving federal support, government funding directly crowds out private inventive …
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engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers … establishment. The results suggest that the work of scientists and engineers in goods and services producing establishments is an … important pathway for increasing productivity and earnings, separate and distinct from the work of scientists and engineers who …
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Using detailed data on biotechnology in Japan, we find that identifiable collaborations" between particular university … star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm … there is little evidence of geographically localized knowledge spillovers. In early industry" formation, star scientists …
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In this paper, we empirically assess the causal links between trade and individual income risk and study the role that human capital plays in this relationship using a rich, worker-level, longitudinal data set from Germany spanning 1976 to 2012. Our estimates suggest substantial heterogeneity in...
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The rise of the "gig economy" has attracted wide attention from both scholars and the popular media. Much of this attention has been devoted to jobs mediated through various online platforms. While non-traditional work arrangements have been a perennial subject of debate and study, the...
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Caspi et al. (2002, 2003), Guo et al. (2008a), and Pescosolido et al. (2008) all claim to have demonstrated allele-by-environment interactions, but in all cases environmental influences are potentially endogenous to the unmeasured genetic characteristics of the subjects and their families. Thus,...
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