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Using life cycle publication data of 9,368 economics PhD graduates from 127 U.S. institutions, we investigate how unemployment in the U.S. economy prior to starting graduate studies and at the time of entry into the academic job market affect economics PhD graduates' research productivity. We...
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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
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contribution by Lichtenberg (2004), which relates longevity in the United States to pharmaceutical innovation and public health … ; Innovation ; Pharmaceuticals ; Health care expenditure ; Cointegration …
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This paper describes a simple model of aggregate and firm growth based on the introduction of new goods. An incumbent firm can combine labor with blueprints for goods it already produces to develop new blueprints. Every worker in the economy is also a potential entrepreneur who can design a new...
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The aim of the paper is to investigate the effect of environmental stringency on innovation and productivity using a … innovation can be one of the channels through which higher sectoral productivity can be reached. The main findings suggest that … downstream stringency is the most relevant driver for innovation and that most of the effect of regulation on productivity is …
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