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The brain drain between knowledge-based economies : the European human capital outflow to the US
Tritah, Ahmed (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003750615
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Intellectual property rights, migration, and diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2011
emigration from the South may directly result in the well-known concept of brain drain, it also causes a brain gain effect, the … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it … correlation between emigration and innovation in the presence of strong IPRs protection. -- Intellectual property rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009234630
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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men
Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015
This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new longitudinal dataset that contains detailed information on individual working histories. Our favourite panel estimates indicate that an additional year of parental education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317905
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Evidence on the Impact of Education on Innovation and Productivity
Junge, Martin; Severgnini, Battista; Sørensen, Anders - 2012
This paper investigates the importance of the educational mix of employees at the rm level for the probability of rms being involved in innovation activities. We distinguish between four types of innovation: product, process, organisational, and marketing innovation. Moreover, we consider three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142371
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Migration, cultural diversity and innovation : a European perspective
Bosetti, Valentina; Cattaneo, Cristina; Verdolini, Elena - 2012
This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of scientific publications, in a panel of 20 European countries. Skilled migrants positively contribute to the knowledge formation in host countries as they add to the pool of skills in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628072
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Horizontal and vertical polarization : task-specific technological change in a multi-sector economy
Lee, Sang Yoon; Shin, Yongseok - 2019
We construct a multi-layer model of skills, occupations, and sectors. Technological progress among middle-skill occupations raises the employment shares and relative wages of lower- and higher-skill occupations (horizontal polarization), and those of managers over workers (vertical...
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Inmigración en Panamá : ¿complemento o sustituto?
Székely, Miguel; Linares, Jennifer - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913211
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Unbundling returns to degrees and skills : evidence from postsecondary education in Colombia
Busso, Matias; Muñoz, Juan Sebastián; Montaño, Sebastián - 2020
This paper shows that returns to education are not enough to capture all the returns to human capital. Using longitudinal data of all college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and to various skillsincluding literacy, numeracy, foreign language,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154159
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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2024
Matched employee-employer data from the UK are used to investigate the importance of social skills, in particular team-work and communication with co-workers, as a driver of wage growth for workers with lower formal education. We find that in social skills tasks, workers enjoy greater wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014505307
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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2023
We use matched employee-employer data from the UK to highlight the importance of social skills, including the ability to work well in a team and communicate effectively with co-workers, as a driver for individual wage growth for workers with few formal educational qualifications. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014382140