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This study analyzes four different transmission mechanisms, through which father's earnings affect son's earnings: the educational attainment, cognitive skills, the cultural capital of the family and the social capital in the neighborhood. Using a unique data set that combines panel data from a...
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impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …
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low-trust societies, suggests reexamination of the presumed positive relationship between social trust and innovation …. Multi-level analyses conducted in this paper reveal that the role of social capital in innovation is different in East Asia …-based incentives are the most essential driving-force of innovation in the East Asian countries, whereas social trust does not play a …
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This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …
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impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are …
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impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are …
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This paper studies the effects of firms' investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their demand for female and skilled workers. Using the gradual liberalization of the broadband Internet sector across provinces from 2006 to 2009 as a source of exogenous variation to...
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