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A New Cross-Country Investigation on the Patterns of Intergenerational Mobility

Cavaglia, Chiara - 2015

This research compares the patterns of intergenerational income mobility between fathers and sons in Germany, Italy, Great Britain and the United States. It is one of the few studies that investigates more than one dimension of mobility. It also proposes a new way to construct the mobility...

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Inventor diasporas and the internationalization of technology : 54th ERSA Congress Saint Petersburg 26-29 August, 2014

Miguélez, Ernest - 2014

This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of high-skilled individuals - i.e., inventors - on … associated with a 1.5 to 2.2 percent increase in international patent collaborations. The evidence found survives the inclusion …

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Global engagement in R&D : a portrait of biopharmaceutical patenting firms

Abramovsky, Laura - 2015

This paper provides a novel portrait of firms engaging in the international use of inventors. I focus on drug discovery … the most high-valued added R&D activities are conducted by inventors, who are engaged in the creation of new technologies … of inventors and this is similar to patterns from data analysing good and service traders and MNEs. Furthermore, host …

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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … certain technologies given a twofold increase in the number of foreign inventors from other nations that specialize in those … same technologies. For the average country in our sample this number corresponds to only 25 inventors and a standard …

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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2020

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … certain technologies given a twofold increase in the number of foreign inventors from other nations that specialize in those … same technologies. For the average country in our sample, this number corresponds to only 25 inventors and a standard …

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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

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Does economic inequality account for cross-country discrepancies in relative social mobility : an empirical investigation

Muteba Mwamba, John; Shiwamya, Paul Mumba; Mudiangombe, … - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 11, pp. 1-9

This paper makes use of the Markov Switching model and the K-Means Cluster analysis to estimate the transition probabilities of social mobility and to analyze the impact of social inequalities on intergenerational social mobility. The dataset is a sample of 44 countries and comprises the 2018...

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The macroeconomic consequences of early childhood development policies

Daruich, Diego - 2018

To study long-run large-scale early childhood policies, this paper incorporates early childhood investments into a standard general-equilibrium (GE) heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generations model. After estimating it using US data, we show that an RCT evaluation of a short-run small-scale...

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The 'Inventor Balance' and the Functional Specialization in Global Inventive Activities

Picci, Lucio; Savorelli, Luca - 2017

Inventors and organizational assets are inputs of inventive activities which are often provided at a global scale …, where countries might specialize in the provision of one or the other type of inputs. We introduce a new patent-based metric … respectively inventors and organizational assets. Moreover, we find that countries with a high level of innovativeness relative to …

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Inequality : an assessment

Mayhew, Ken; Wills, Samuel - In: Oxford review of economic policy 35 (2019) 3, pp. 351-367

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