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Are There Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L; Bryan, Mark L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...

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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

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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Outsourcing, Offshoring and Innovation: Evidence from Firm-level Data for Emerging Economies

Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

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Services outsourcing and innovation: An empirical investigation

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …

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