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Benefits and Spillovers of Greater Competition in Europe : A Macroeconomic Assesment

Bayoumi, Tamim - 2004

Using a general-equilibrium simulation model featuring nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition in product and … labor markets, this paper estimates the macroeconomic benefits and international spillovers of an increase in competition …, greater competition produces large effects on macroeconomic performance, as measured by standard indicators. In particular, we …

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Worker Flows, Entry and Productivity in the New Zealand Construction Industry

Chappell, Nathan - 2018

The 21st century global decline in productivity growth is not well understood. One possible contributor is a decline in economic dynamism. We explore the contribution of firm formation and employee movement to productivity using administrative data on the population of New Zealand construction...

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The Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge Across Time and Space : Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine

Azoulay, Pierre - 2011

Are scientific knowledge flows embodied in individuals, or "in the air"? To answer this question, we measure the effect of labor mobility in a sample of 9,483 elite academic life scientists on the citation trajectories associated with individual articles (resp. patents) published (resp. granted)...

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Gone But Not Forgotten : Labor Flows, Knowledge Spillovers, and Enduring Social Capital

Agrawal, Ajay - 2003

It is well known that patent citations occur disproportionately between patents issued to inventors living in the same location, which has been taken as evidence of geographically localized knowledge spillovers. In this study, we find that patent citations also occur disproportionately often in...

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Is Mobility of Technical Personnel a Source of R&D Spillovers?

Møen, Jarle - 2000

Labor mobility is often considered to be an important source of knowledge externalities, making it difficult for firms to appropriate returns to R&D investments. In this paper, I argue that inter-firm transfers of knowledge embodied in people should be analyzed within a human capital framework....

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Labor Mobility and Fiscal Coordination

Razin, Assaf - 1996

Using a human capital based growth model, we show the essential role of labor mobility and cross-country tax harmonization in equalizing income levels of countries that start off from different initial income positions. Knowledge spillovers cum labor mobility are the driving forces behind the...

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School Competition and Teacher Labor Markets : Evidence from Charter School Entry in North Carolina

Jackson, C. Kirabo - 2011

I analyze changes in teacher turnover, hiring, effectiveness, and salaries at traditional public schools after the opening of a nearby charter school. While I find small effects on turnover overall, difficult to staff schools (low-income, high-minority share) hired fewer new teachers and...

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Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments

Brown, Jennifer - 2011

We consider how past, current, and future competition within an elimination tournament affect the probability that the …

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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems

Frederiksen, Anders - 2017

Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...

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Uncertainty Shocks, Capital Flows, and International Risk Spillovers

Akinci, Ozge; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Queralto, Albert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Foreign investors' changing appetite for risk-taking have been shown to be a key determinant of the global financial cycle. Such fluctuations in risk sentiment also correlate with the dynamics of UIP premia, capital flows, and exchange rates. To understand how these risk sentiment changes...

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