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The Role of Industry, Occupation, and Location-Specific Knowledge in the Survival of New Firms
Figueroa, C. Jara - 2018
How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of that knowledge? Here we measure the industry, occupation, and location specific knowledge carried by workers from one...
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Reaching for the Stars : Who Pays for Talent in Innovative Industries?
Andersson, Fredrik - 2006
Innovation in the U.S. economy is about employing and rewarding highly talented workers to produce new products. Using unique longitudinal matched employer-employee data, this paper makes a key connection between talent and firms in markets with risky product innovations. We show that software...
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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
Sauermann, Henry - 2008
We examine the impact of individual-level motives upon innovative effort and performance in firms. Drawing from economics and social psychology, we develop a model of the impact of individuals' motives and incentives upon their innovative effort and performance. Using data on over 11,000...
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Fire in the Belly? Employee Motives and Innovative Performance in Startups versus Established Firms
Sauermann, Henry - 2017
We examine whether startups attract employees with different pecuniary and non-pecuniary motives than small or large established firms. We then explore whether such differences in employee motives lead to differences in innovative performance across firm types. Using data on over 10,000 U.S. R&D...
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Teaching Locals New Tricks : Foreign Experts as a Channel of Knowledge Transfers
Markusen, James R. - 2007
Gains from productivity and knowledge transmission arising from the presence of foreign firms have received a good deal of empirical attention, but theoretical micro-foundations for this mechanism are limited. Here we develop a dynamic model in which foreign experts may train domestic workers...
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Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers
Guillouet, Louise; Khandelwal, Amit; Macchiavello, Rocco; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
A distinct feature of MNCs is a three-tier organizational structure: foreign managers (FMs) supervise domestic managers (DMs) who supervise production workers. Language barriers between FMs and DMs could impede transfers of management knowledge. We develop a model in which DMs learn general...
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Capital Structure and a Firm’s Workforce
Matsa, David A. - 2018
firm's workforce on its capital structure. For instance, high leverage often makes managing labor more difficult by … undermining employees' job security and increasing the need for costly workforce reductions. But firms can also use leverage to … needs and management of their workforce when making financing decisions …
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How Substitutable Are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths
Jäger, Simon; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on average, raise the remaining workers' wages and retention probabilities. The average effect masks...
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Workplace Knowledge Flows
Sandvik, Jason - 2020
What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge flows? We conducted a field experiment in a sales company, addressing these questions with three active treatments. (1) Encouraging workers to talk about their sales techniques...
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The Gravity of Knowledge
Keller, Wolfgang - 2009
How large are spatial barriers to transferring knowledge? We analyze the international operations of multinational firms to answer this fundamental question. In our model firms can transfer bits of knowledge to their foreign affiliates in either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied...
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