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advantage in the most complex tasks relative to capital, and because the wages of the least skilled workers are sufficiently low … relative to their productivity and the effective cost of capital in low-complexity tasks. Minimum wages and other sources of … higher wages at the bottom make interior automation less likely. Starting with interior automation, a reduction in the cost …
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We use the lens of the resource-based view and horizontal agency cost theory to analyse the effect of the presence of different types of individual owners, i.e. owner-managers and non-manager individual shareholders, on the performance of high-tech entrepreneurial firms. Ownership enlargement...
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We address the key question of the efficacy of R&D policy measures in support of hightech start-ups. Distinguishing …
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We investigate the differences in venture capital (VC) governance of investee firms with Open Business Models (OBMs), specifically Open Source Software (OSS), versus closed business models. Due to OSS's pronounced complexity and uncertainty, we conjecture that VC-backed OSS firms are more...
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training are borne by workers. When labor market frictions compress the structure of wages, firms may pay for these investments …
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I consider an economy where skilled and unskilled workers use different technologies. The rate of improvement of each technology is determined by a profit-maximizing R&D sector. When there is a high proportion of skilled workers in the labor force, the market for skill-complementary technologies...
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This paper explains why firms with identical opportunities may use different technologies and offer different wages …). In equilibrium, some firms adopt high fixed cost, high productivity technologies, offer high wages, and fill job openings … quickly. Other firms adopt less capital-intensive technologies and offer lower wages, hiring mostly uninformed workers. In …
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