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migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social … solutions rises with the diversity in human capital and decreases with the diversity in social capital between migrants and …
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We combine firm-level innovation data with area-level Census data to examine the relationship between local workforce … characteristics, especially the presence of immigrants and local skills, and the likelihood of innovation by firms. We examine a range … of innovation outcomes, and test the relationship for selected subgroups of firms. We find a positive relationship …
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We design a performance-on-structure experiment, where performance is measured by innovation outcomes and structure is …, patents normalized by R&D intensity, patent citations, and citations per patent to measure innovation outcomes. A firm … market or to develop the human capital of existing employees and 2) how it adjusts capital investment in innovation to match …
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&D investment proactively and contemporaneously. Firm-level innovation outcome, measured by patents and citations, declined for …
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migrants suffer from low transferability of their country specific human capital. The article highlights the need to consider …
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We propose a theory of free movement of goods and labor between two economies in the presence of moral hazard. Each country produces two final goods where the productive efforts of workers cannot be perfectly observed or verified only in the complex industry. We show that national institutional...
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We propose a theory of free movement of goods and labor between two economies in the presence of moral hazard. Each country produces two final goods where the productive efforts of workers cannot be perfectly observed, or verified only in the complex industry. We show that national institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408388
This paper examines the link between trade-induced changes in local labor market opportunities and English language fluency rates among low-skilled immigrants in the United States. Many of the production-based manufacturing jobs lost in recent years due to Chinese import competition did not...
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temporary migrants already in the country as sources of permanent immigration. An overview of key results in the literature on …
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This paper examines the link between trade-induced changes in local labor market opportunities and English language fluency rates among low-skilled immigrants in the United States. Many of the production-based manufacturing jobs lost in recent years due to Chinese import competition did not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243103