Showing 1 - 10 of 187
emphasized the importance of geographic spillovers in determining the location choice of foreign investment, such spatial effects … circumvent the lack of a traditional instrument within a model incorporating geographic spillovers utilizing three novel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246700
between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721626
reviewing possible sources of FDI induced spillovers. It then provides a comprehensive evaluation of the empirical evidence on … productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a … range of possible spillover channels, robust empirical support for positive spillovers is, at best, mixed. The reasons for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703573
While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566419
We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of Chinese SOEs covering the period 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703273
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
The paper investigates whether unionisation has a spillover effect on wellbeing by comparing non-members in union and non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade unions and goes on to conduct empirical analyses using linked employer-employee data and alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812505
host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward linkages have a consistently positive effect on productivity of … domestic firms while horizontal and forward linkages show no consistent effect. We also examine how the strength of spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884338
first evidence on spillovers from the partner's working time mismatch. However, the spillover becomes insignificant once we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276082
In this paper, I examine the impact of uninsured patients on the health of the insured, focusing on one health outcome – the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and hospital financial data from California (1999-2006)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279323