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Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures
(University of Chicago Press, 2014-05-13)
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 ...
U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
(2014-01-13)
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of ...
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2014-05-13)
Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils ...
Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
(2014-01-27)
This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation ...
Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-10-07)
We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among general district traits, quality of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the strongest ...
Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
(2013-05-31)
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent ...
Labor Regulations and European Venture Capital
(2013-05-31)
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 ...
Immigration and Employer Transitions for STEM Workers
(2013-05-31)
We analyze the career trajectories of STEM workers and firm-level hiring of immigrants using the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) database of the US Census Bureau. We find STEM career adjustments during ...
The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
(American Economic Association, 2014-05-13)
We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998–2006. Our data exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with ...
Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials
(Elsevier, 2014-07-18)
In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). ...