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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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investment or international technology spillovers. This study is a major contribution to innovation, trade, FDI and growth …
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capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …
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In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer … and demographic characteristics to valuable firm's innovation activity. The latter is measured by: (1) the firm … firm's innovation outcomes. …
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
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Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little understanding as to why. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is primarily because referrals allow...
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we contribute to the debate on HCAI by arguing that public procurement and innovation (PPaI) can be used to incentivize … with calls for mission-oriented and challenge-led innovation policies. Our paper also contributes to the emerging …
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In this paper we study the effect of unions on product and process innovation both theoretically and empirically. We … innovation does not necessarily survive. When the voice effect is neither too strong nor too low, the unionized sector … outperforms the market in terms of process innovation, while the effect on product innovation is strictly increasing in the voice …
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We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel …
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the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …
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