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The Adoption and Diffusion of OrganizationalInnovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lynch, Lisa M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

States during the 1990s, I examine the incidenceand intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments inorganizational innovation... …

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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2014

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high … applications by about 0.2%. By contrast, the impact of high-skilled immigrants on innovation is positive, in line with the previous …

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F. - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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Human Resources and Innovation : Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital

Fassio, Claudio - 2015

The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

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Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s

Liu, Xuejun - 2014

Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively skill-deficit countries, in recent decades many developing countries have experienced rising wage premiums for skilled workers. We examines this puzzle by quantifying the...

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Earnings-Tenure Profiles:Tests of Agency and Human Capital TheoriesUsing Individual Performance Data

Dong, Xiao-yuan; Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of workerperformance, we provide some of the most rigorous evidence to date on several relateddimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles...

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …

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The Role of Entrepreneurial Human Capital as a Driver of Endogenous Economic Growth

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2017

We model investment in entrepreneurial human capital (EHC) – the representative enterprise's share of production capacity allocated to investment in innovative industrial and commercial knowledge – as a distinct channel through which firm-specific human capital drives endogenous growth. Our...

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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China

Fleisher, Belton M. - 2013

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...

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Intrapreneurship or Entrepreneurship?

Parker, Simon C. - 2010

I explore the factors that determine whether new business opportunities are exploited by starting a new venture for an employer ('nascent intrapreneurship') or independently ('nascent entrepreneurship'). Analysis of a nationally representative sample of American adults gathered in 2005-06...

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