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Is Japan's Innovative Capacity in Decline?

Branstetter, Lee; Nakamura, Yoshiaki - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

This paper investigates changes in the output and productivity of research and development activities in Japanese manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D statistics and a micro-level analysis of R&D productivity at the firm-level suggest that there...

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Overcoming Skills Shortages in Canada

Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Skills shortages have developed in certain fields and regions in recent years. Earnings premiums for people in some professions, notably health, engineering and skilled trades have increased. And vacancy rates have risen for skilled trades, with the increase being particularly large in Alberta...

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Improving Education Outcomes in the Slovak Republic

Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

Improving education outcomes is vital for achieving convergence with GDP per capita levels in Western European countries and for reducing income inequality. While some education outcomes are favourable, such as the low secondary-school drop-out rate, others have room for improvement: education...

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Improving Education Outcomes in Germany

Carey, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

Improving education outcomes is important for Germany’s long-term economic performance and social cohesion. While student achievement is above the OECD average in science and at the OECD average in reading and mathematics according to the 2006 OECD PISA study, weaker students tend to do badly...

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Improving Education Achievement and Attainment in Luxembourg

Carey, David; Ernst, Ekkehard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

Improving education achievement in Luxembourg is a priority for strengthening productivity growth and enhancing residents. employment prospects in the private sector, where employers mainly hire cross-border workers. Student achievement in Luxembourg is below the OECD average according to the...

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Knowledge, Human Capital and Economic Development: Evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750-1930

Khan, B. Zorina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

, skills, and knowledge inputs that shift the frontier of technology and production possibilities. Many argue that the nature … or the acquisition of costly human capital. This paper examines the contributions of different types of knowledge to …

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Is Foreign Direct Investment a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from Japan's FDI in the United States

Branstetter, Lee - 2000

technological information. FDI is an alternate, potentially equally important channel for the mediation of such knowledge spillovers …. I introduce a framework for measuring international knowledge spillovers at the firm level, and I use this framework to … directly test the hypothesis that FDI is a channel of knowledge spillovers for Japanese multinationals undertaking direct …

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Do Stronger Patents Induce More Innovation? Evidence from the 1988 Japanese Patent Law Reforms

Sakakibara, Mariko - 1999

Does an expansion of patent scope induce more innovative effort by firms? This article provides evidence on this question by examining firm responses to the Japanese patent reforms of 1988. Interviews with practitioners suggest the reforms significantly expanded the scope of patent rights in...

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Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan

Branstetter, Lee; Chen, Jong-rong; Glennon, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … directly related to product categories that could be offshored more easily after the policy shock, overall innovation levels … decline and innovative effort shifts away from product innovation and towards process innovation. However, we also find …

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Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment : Theory and Evidence

Branstetter, Lee - 2007

which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts that IPR reform in the South …, Northern resources will be reallocated to R&D, driving an increase in the global rate of innovation. We test the model …

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