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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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Koeniger, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less …

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Brain Drain and its Determinants: A Major Issue for Small States

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states’ overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...

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North-South Technology Spillovers: The Relative Impact of Openness and Foreign R&D

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the relative contribution of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP growth for North … imposes identical contributions of openness and the R&D content of trade to TFP. We allow these contributions to differ and … show that openness has a greater impact on TFP growth than R&D. These results imply that the impact of openness on TFP in …

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How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia

Domadenik, Polona; Prasnikar, Janez; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and...

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Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

in the inequality and growth literature. These include growth, openness, wages, and liberalisation. We review the …

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Does Labor Diversity Affect Firm Productivity?

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Pytlikova, Mariola - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using a matched employer-employee data-set, we analyze how workforce diversity in terms of cultural background, education and demographic characteristics affects the productivity of firms in Denmark. Implementing a structural estimation of the firms' production function (Ackerberg et al. 2006),...

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Wage Effects of High-Skilled Migration: International Evidence

Grossmann, Volker; Stadelmann, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level such that the wage rate of skilled workers may rise in host countries and decline in source countries. We exploit a recent data set on international bilateral migration flows...

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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Contribute to Productivity Growth?

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar; Terrones, Marco E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise … productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output … of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that …

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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001

Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency changed in response to changing competitive...

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