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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research
Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …
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Better Harnessing Talent and Knowledge to Boost Sustainable Medium-term Growth in Spain
Haugh, David; Westmore, Ben - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Structural transformation towards a more knowledge-based economy will strengthen Spain’s medium-term growth prospects. To deal with long standing impediments to higher growth the government has a substantial structural reform programme touching on education, the labour market and the business...
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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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Immigration : select documents and case records
Abbott, Edith - 1924 - Reprint.
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Immigration & Ideas: What Did Russian Scientists 'Bring' to the US?
Ganguli, Ina - The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics and … - 2014
This paper examines how high-skilled immigrants contribute to knowledge diffusion using a rich dataset of Russian scientists and US citations to Soviet-era publications. Analysis of a panel of US cities and scientific fields shows that citations to Soviet-era work increased significantly with...
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Immigrants and entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) September, pp. 1-10
countries have established special visas and entry requirements to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Research supports some of … successful than focusing on entrepreneurship. …
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs' contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735636
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015
attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257678
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ICT-induced Technological Progress and Employment: a Happy Marriage or a Dangerous Liaison? A Literature Review
Sabadash, Anna - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013
While the EU economy is struggling with the joint consequences of the 2008-2009 recession and the sovereign-debt crisis, the theoretical and policy debate largely revolves around the role ICT play in the structural dynamics of the labour markets. However, despite a wealth of theoretical...
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ICT-induced Technological Progress and Employment: A Literature Review
Sabadash, Anna - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013
This report surveys the literature on the employment impact of ICT. Two competing views - compensation and substitution theory - dominate the current economic debate. The first assumes that the labour-saving impact of technological progress is counterbalanced by various compensation mechanisms....
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