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In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more … our analysis of the local effects of immigration, and we describe several applications. We then discuss the empirical …
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internalize the risk of workers' mobility by reducing their training investments in these workers. By comparing two matched …
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This paper studies the diffusion of multiple, related technologies among firms. The results suggest an endogenous acceleration mechanism of technology adoption: The more advanced a firm is in using a particular set of technologies, the more likely it is to adopt additional, related technologies....
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complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the …
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We analyze recent contributions to growth theory based on the model of expanding variety of Romer [Romer, P. (1990). “Endogenous technological change”. Journal of Political Economy 98, 71–102]. In the first part, we present different versions of the benchmark linear model with imperfect...
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With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage …' skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas …
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With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage …’ skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas …
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progress. Exploiting national immigration policy changes together with historical settlement patterns of immigrants' across US … counties, I estimate the effect of skilled immigration on local patenting rates. I find that counties that received more … most of the effect is due to skilled immigration from Non-English Speaking Countries and from Countries with long patenting …
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. A second dimension of wage inequality concerns its fractal nature, that is the fact that it persists within education … level of education considered. Depending on the determinants - exogenous or endogenous - and the consequences on wage … ability to absorb and use new technologies, assets, luck, specific technological competencies or general education. The second …
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