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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship: a comparative study between Germany and Portugal

Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009

general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …

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An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market

Mendes, Rute; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2007

-emplyee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …

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Determinants of growth and convergence in a growing economy with heterogeneous entrepreneurs

Dohse, Dirk; Ott, Ingrid - 2008

We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and convergence. Our work is closely related to the model by Acemoglu et al. (2006) but extends their analysis in some important respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two...

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Does Qualification Drive Innovation? A Microeconometric Analysis Using Linked-employer-employee Data

Brandenburg, Bianca; Günther, Jutta; Schneider, Lutz - 2007

source of innovative activities within companies. Broken down by sectoral innovation patterns, this article examines the role … of formal education and actual occupation for product innovation performance in manufacturing firms within a probit model … to the Pavitt classification. Sectors with a high share of highly skilled employees engage in product innovation above …

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Human capital diversity and product innovation: A micro-level analysis

Söllner, René - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between human capital diversity measured in terms of occupational diversity and a firm's likelihood to innovate. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee panel dataset of German firms over the period 1998 to 2007. Despite notable...

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Which immigrants are most innovative and entrepreneurial? Distinctions by entry visa

Hunt, Jennifer - 2010

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...

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Innovation, labour demand and wages in Poland: Some introductory results using micro-macro data

Walewski, Mateusz - 2009

There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most of the results indicating positive effects. Thus far, this kind of analysis has not been performed for Poland and it seems to be an important and interesting field for...

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Schooling Institutions and the Influence of Parental and Immigrant Background on Academic Performance

Guo, Yuchen; Nikolka, Till; Oesingmann, Katrin - In: CESifo DICE Report 14 (2016) 2, pp. 68-71

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Occupational mobility, occupation distance and specific human capital

Robinson, Chris - 2011

Measures of occupation distance based on underlying skill portfolios are constructed and used to contrast involuntary and total mobility. One component of total occupational mobility is voluntary mobility, including moves to higher job offers using the same skills, as well as promotions that may...

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Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion

Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - 2011

Standard search models are inconsistent with the amount of frictional wage dis- persion found in U.S. data. We resolve this apparent puzzle by modeling skill development (learning by doing on the job, skill loss during unemployment) and duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on...

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