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Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana; Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

of organizational form surrounding innovation and influence when innovation is more likely to occur. These factors not …

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Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms

Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...

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Global Talent Flows

Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Caglar; … - 2016

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...

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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Caglar; … - 2016

This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding...

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Labor regulations and European venture capital

Bozkaya, Ant; Kerr, William R. - 2013

European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor market insurance...

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Financing innovation

Kerr, William R.; Nanda, Ramana - 2015

We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This … related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects … innovation and changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs. …

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Immigrant entrepreneurship

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantities immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148302

Global talent flows

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2016

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Immigrant entrepreneurship

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

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