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Vivarelli, Marco; Meschi, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper discusses the distributive consequences of trade flows in developing countries (DCs). On the theoretical side, we argue that the interplays between international openness and technology adoption may constitute an important mechanism leading to a possible increase of income...

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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobility for Industrial Innovation

Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the private sector on the subsequent innovative performance of the firms they join. We use data on the population of Danish firms and their R&D workers for the period 1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...

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Skill-Biased Technological Change and Skill-Enhancing Trade in Turkey: Evidence from Longitudinal Microdata

Srour, Ilina; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper explores the causes of skill-based employment differentials within the Turkish manufacturing sector over the period 1980-2001. Turkey is taken as an example of a developing economy that, in that period, had been technologically advancing and becoming increasingly integrated with the...

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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research: With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased … public investment in information and communication technologies as infrastructure for development, the importance of …

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Trade Openness and the Demand for Skills: Evidence from Turkish Microdata

Meschi, Elena; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm-level data over the period 1980-2001. In a dynamic panel data setting using a unique database of 17,462 firms,...

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Banks and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence on Italian Firms

Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

banking development reduces the cash flow sensitivity of fixed investment spending, particularly for small firms, and that it …

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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?

Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

(favorable) impact on investment. …

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Accounting for China's Growth

Brandt, Loren; Zhu, Xiaodong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … investment are all inter-related, simple growth decompositions that are often used in the literature are not appropriate for … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …

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Firm-Level Heterogeneity and the Decision to Export: A Real Option Approach

Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas; Bilkic, Natasa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

an alternative way to model whether firms export or not, namely as a firm-level decision akin to an investment decision …

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