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      Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows
      Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows
      NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES DIGITAL LABOR MARKETS AND GLOBAL TALENT FLOWS John Horton William R. Kerr Christopher Stanton Working Paper 23398...
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      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups

      By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Richard Townsend and Ting Xu
      This paper investigates how economic downturns affect the flow of human capital to startups. Using proprietary data from AngelList Talent, we study how individuals’ online job searches and applications changed during the emergence of the COVID-19 crisis. We find that...  View Details
      Keywords: Startup Labor Market; Flight To Safety; Covid-19; Recession; Business Startups; Human Capital; Business Cycles; Health Pandemics
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      Bernstein, Shai Benjamin, Richard Townsend, and Ting Xu. "Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-045, September 2020.
      • 2018
      • Working Paper

      Black Out-Migration and Southern Political Realignment

      By: Leah Boustan and Marco Tabellini
      Can emigration from less democratic and economically less developed areas induce political and economic change? We study this question in the context of the second Great Migration of African Americans (1940–1970), when more than 4 million blacks left the U.S. South and...  View Details
      Keywords: Great Migration; Immigration; Race; Government And Politics; Economics; United States
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      Boustan, Leah, and Marco Tabellini. "Black Out-Migration and Southern Political Realignment." Working Paper, 2018.
      • 2018
      • Chapter

      Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows

      By: John Horton, William R. Kerr and Christopher Stanton
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      Horton, John, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton. "Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows." Chap. 3 in High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences, edited by Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner, 71–108. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
      • December 2017
      • Case

      International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

      By: Jose B. Alvarez and Sarah Mehta
      It is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact...  View Details
      Keywords: Scaling Technologies; Youth Unemployment; Innovation In Nonprofits; Agribusiness; Plant-based Agribusiness; Cash flow; labor; Employment; Commercialization; Problems And Challenges; Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Nigeria
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      Alvarez, Jose B., and Sarah Mehta. "International Institute of Tropical Agriculture." Harvard Business School Case 518-034, December 2017.
      • August 2017
      • Article

      Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes

      By: Avery C. Plough, Grace Galwin, Zhonghe Li, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Shehnaz Alidina, Natalie J. Henrich, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, William R. Berry, Atul A. Gawande, Doris Peter, Rory McDonald, Donna L. Caldwell, Janet H. Muri, Debra Bingham, Aaron B. Caughey, Eugene R. Declercq and Neel T. Shah
      OBJECTIVE: To define, measure, and characterize key competencies of managing labor and delivery units in the United States and assess the associations between unit management and maternal outcomes. METHODS: We developed and administered a management measurement...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Care And Treatment; Management Practices And Processes; Performance Evaluation; Outcome Or Result; United States
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      Plough, Avery C., Grace Galwin, Zhonghe Li, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Shehnaz Alidina, Natalie J. Henrich, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, William R. Berry, Atul A. Gawande, Doris Peter, Rory McDonald, Donna L. Caldwell, Janet H. Muri, Debra Bingham, Aaron B. Caughey, Eugene R. Declercq, and Neel T. Shah. "Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes." Obstetrics & Gynecology 130, no. 2 (August 2017): 358–365.
      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows

      By: John Horton, William R. Kerr and Christopher Stanton
      Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and...  View Details
      Keywords: Technology Networks; Job Cuts And Outsourcing; Talent And Talent Management; labor
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      Horton, John, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton. "Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-096, May 2017.
      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Diversity in Innovation

      By: Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Q. Wang
      In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital-backed startups. We show that from 1990-2016 women have been less than 10% of the entrepreneurial and venture...  View Details
      Keywords: Diversity; Gender; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital
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      Gompers, Paul A., and Sophie Q. Wang. "Diversity in Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-067, January 2017.
      • October 2015
      • Article

      Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

      By: William R. Kerr and Scott Duke Kominers
      We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions...  View Details
      Keywords: Agglomeration; Clusters; Networks; Industrial Organization; Silicon Valley; Entrepreneurship; Technology Flows; Patents; Networks; Technology; Industry Clusters; Entrepreneurship; California
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      Kerr, William R., and Scott Duke Kominers. "Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes." Review of Economics and Statistics 97, no. 4 (October 2015): 877–899.
      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

      By: William R. Kerr and Scott Duke Kominers
      We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Patents; labor; Industry Clusters; Industry Structures; Relationships; Competitive Advantage; Technology Industry; California
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      Kerr, William R., and Scott Duke Kominers. "Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-061, December 2010.
      • August 2004
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      Capital Controls, Risk and Liberalization Cycles

      By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
      The paper presents an overlapping-generations model where agents vote on whether to open or close the economy to international capital flows. Political decisions are shaped by the risk over capital and labor returns. In an open economy, the capitalists (old) completely...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Cycles; Development Economics; Voting; Risk And Uncertainty; Cash flow; Saving; Investment; Economy; Wages
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      Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Capital Controls, Risk and Liberalization Cycles." Review of International Economics 12, no. 3 (August 2004): 412–434.
      • July 1999
      • Background Note

      Comments on Standard Times and the Division of Labor

      By: Roy D. Shapiro
      A brief note on the origins and uses of standard times in production process flow diagrams and on the benefits and drawbacks of division of labor. A rewritten version of two earlier notes.  View Details
      Keywords: labor; Management Practices And Processes; Standards; Production
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      Shapiro, Roy D. "Comments on Standard Times and the Division of Labor." Harvard Business School Background Note 600-013, July 1999.
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      Capital Controls, Risk and Liberalization Cycles (joint with Fabio Kanczuk)

      By: Laura Alfaro
      We construct an Overlapping-Generations model where agents vote on whether to open or close the economy to international capital flows. Political decisions are shaped by the risk over capital and labor returns. In an open economy, the capitalists (old) completely hedge...  View Details
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      Lewis, Tracy R. and Dennis A. Yao. (2001, revised 2006). "Innovation, Knowledge Flow, and Worker...  View Details

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