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As one of the world’s largest recipients of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), China is emerging as a key global player … importance of foreign R&D in China based on quantitative mapping in terms of R&D inputs, outputs and local linkages in R … that the growing importance of China in the globalization of R&D is more than a ‘flash-in-the-pan’. On one hand, China is …
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FDI can be an important channel for developing countries’ ability to get access to new technology. The impact of FDI on domestically-owned firms’ technology development is less examined but it is frequently argued that technology externalities or demonstration effects could have a positive...
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FDI ends up in China, putting the cohesion of the EU at stake and triggering a regional race within China. …
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’s largest recipients of FDI, China has arguably benefited from foreign multinational enterprises in various respects. However …, one of the main challenges for China, and other developing countries, is job-creation, and the effect of FDI on job … job creation in domestic firms. We analyze FDI and job creation in China using a large sample of manufacturing firms for …
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We show that every time a local economy generates a new job by attracting a new business in the traded sector, a significant number of additional jobs are created in the non-traded sector. This multiplier effect is particularly large for jobs with high levels of human capital and for high tech...
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This paper analyses the effect on agglomeration tendencies of allowing firms to become multi-region firms in a standard model of trade and location. More specifically, we introduce horizontal and vertical multi-region firms into the core-periphery (CP) model developed by Krugman (1991). The...
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This thesis contains two studies. The first study investigates the income distribution among Namibian households. The second study examines the differences in earnings between males and females in the Namibian labour market. In both studies we use the 1993/1994 Namibia Household Income and...
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This paper analyses the effect on agglomeration tendencies of allowing firms to become multi-region firms in a standard model of trade and location. More specifically, we introduce horizontal and vertical multi-region firms into the core-periphery (CP) model developed by Krugman (1991). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645400
This thesis contains two studies. The first study investigates the income distribution among Namibian households. The second study examines the differences in earnings between males and females in the Namibian labour market. In both studies we use the 1993/1994 Namibia Household Income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645402
This paper presents a detailed analysis of voters’ responses to municipality and regional-level unemployment and economic growth, using panel data on 284 municipalities and 9 regions, covering Swedish general elections from 1982 to 2002. The preferred specification suggests that a reduction in...
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