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Skills, division of labor and performance in collective inventions : evidence from the open source software
Giuri, Paola; Ploner, Matteo; Rullani, Francesco; … - 2006
This paper investigates the role of skills and the division of labor among participants in collective inventions. Our analysis draws on a large sample of projects registered at Sourceforge.net, the world's largest incubator of open source software activity. We test the hypothesis that the level...
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Human Capital, Skilled Immigrants, and Innovation
Ashraf, Rasha - 2018
Before 2004, by sourcing skilled labor in the international labor market, large, innovative U.S. firms effectively utilized an alternative to investing in the existing human capital stock of these firms. After the immigration policy shock of 2004, when new skilled immigrant hiring became...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935436
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Human Capital, Skilled Immigrants, and Innovation
Ashraf, Rasha - 2018
We design a performance-on-structure experiment, where performance is measured by innovation outcomes and structure is defined as corporate investment policy, specifically, how firms acquire, assess, and retain human capital. We use patents, patents normalized by R&D intensity, patent citations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933303
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The dynamics of skills : technology and business cycles
Cirillo, Valeria; Pianta, Mario; Nascia, Leopoldo - 2015
This article investigates the role of technology, education and wages in shaping the skill structure of employment …
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When workers' skills become unbundled : some empirical consequences for sorting and wages
Nordström Skans, Oskar; Choné, Philippe; Kramarz, Francis - 2022
This empirical paper analyzes labor market sorting across establishments using Swedish register data on cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. We draw on the theoretical foundations of Chone' and Kramarz (2021), in which workers are endowed with sets of multidimensional skills that need to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174859
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Education, skill training, and lifelong learning in the era of technological revolution
Kim, Jinyoung; Park, Cyn-Young - 2020
include strong cognitive skills, basic information and communication technology, and analytical skills, as well as a range of … paper reviews the recent studies on human capital and skill formation in the era of rapid technological progress. Findings …
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New evidence on the effect of technology on employment and skill demand
Hirvonen, Johannes; Stenhammar, Aapo; Tuhkuri, Joonas - 2022
research design focuses on a technology subsidy program in Finland that induced sharp increases in technology investment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013419141
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Employment polarization in Germany : role of technology, trade and human capital
Consoli, Davide; Roy, Ipsita - 2015
Building on the canonical model of skill-biased technical change to incorporate differential effects of technology and … subsequent adoption of computer and information technology and larger decline in routine occupations. Exposure to global imports … smaller as compared to technology. However, when looking at the direction of displacement of routine-workers, regions with …
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Human Capital Externalities with Monopsonistic Competition
Kaas, Leo - 2021
This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model of monopsonistic competition. Multiple equilibria arise because of a strategic complementarity in investment decisions
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The role of trade and offshoring in the determination of child labour
Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2015
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce child labour in developing countries where the initial share of skilled workers in the adult workforce – though not as large as in developed countries – is nonetheless...
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