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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
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This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the German Qualification and Career...
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We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …
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We propose an endogenous growth model with offshoring to investigate its effects on product innovation and growth in …
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, innovation and economic growth. We provide empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the EU Single Market Programme … with a subsequent increase in innovation intensity and productivity growth for manufacturing sectors. In our analysis we … reforms on average profitability, and the effects of profitability on innovation and productivity growth. …
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that influence innovation by firms and their subsequent growth. Our data come from a survey of nearly 4,000 firms in 24 … and opportunities for innovation, virtually every firm that emerged from central planning was maladapted to the new … competition in market economies. We find evidence of the importance of a minimum of rivalry in both innovation and growth: the …
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By choosing their organizations, firms trade-off productive efficiency and time spent in implementing innovation. We …
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that firms use offshore cost savings opportunities to improve the efficiency of the innovation process, although not …
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communicate valuable knowledge to an entrepreneur, facilitating innovation. The venture capitalist can also communicate the …This paper explores a new role for venture capitalists, as knowledge intermediaries. A venture capital investor can … entrepreneur's innovative knowledge to other portfolio companies. We study the costs and benefits of these two forms of knowledge …
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investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …
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