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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call 'the...
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Innovation and education: Is there a "nerd effect"?
Goldbach, Stefan - 2012
economists. The main contribution to the literature is in using the type of education as main explanatory variable for innovation … results depend on the underlying definition of innovation, as robustness checks show. …
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Knowledge spillovers and future jobs
Audretsch, David B. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Globalization brings both good and bad job news. The bad news is that jobs will be outsourced from high-cost developed countries into lower-cost locations as soon as the associated economic activity becomes mechanized and predictable. The good news is that globalization creates opportunities...
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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...
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Intellectual property rights and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship
Ács, Zoltán J.; Sanders, Mark - 2008
innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial … generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271789
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Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy
Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2013
innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export ratio given the small size of the country and its long-time EU …
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Innovation in the European Value Chain: The Case of the Romanian Automotive Industry
Negrea, Alina Petronela; Cojanu, Valentin - In: CES Working Papers 7 (2015) 1, pp. 126-146
’ approach to and perception on innovation, (2) factors affecting innovation, and (3) networking and knowledge diffusion in the … innovation plays at the current stage of the industry and the key role entrepreneurs have in stimulating innovation in the … presence of an innovation friendly business environment, entrepreneurs’ personality, as well as the external competitive …
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Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
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Regional Growth Regimes Revisited - The Case of West Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - 2004
Audretsch and Fritsch (2002) proposed two explanations for the mixed evidence regarding the relationship between new firm formation and regional development. Firstly, they found evidence for the existence of long time lags needed before the main effects of new firm formation on employment change...
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Regional growth regimes revisited - the case of West Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - 2004
Audretsch and Fritsch (2002) proposed two explanations for the mixed evidence regarding the relationship between new firm formation and regional development. Firstly, they found evidence for the existence of long time lags needed before the main effects of new firm formation on employment change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305674