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Headquarter services, skill intensity and labour demand elasticities in multinational firms

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2009

Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to own labour costs changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in wage elasticity of labour demand persists...

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Using genes to explore the effects of cognitive and non-cognitive skills on education and labor market outcomes

Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2021

A large literature establishes that cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly correlated with educational attainment and professional achievement. Isolating the causal effects of these traits on career outcomes is complicated by reverse causality and selection issues. We suggest a new...

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Using genes to explore the effects of cognitive and non-cognitive skills on education and labor market outcomes

Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2023 - Revision: February 2023

A large literature establishes that cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly correlated with educational attainment and professional achievement. Isolating the causal effects of these traits on career outcomes is made difficult by reverse causality and selection issues. We suggest a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014245859

Occupational sorting on genes

Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2023 - Revision: February 2023

Are genetic differences between people associated with their career choices? We link data from a large sample of genotyped individuals to Swedish government register data on study major and occupation. Our data contains polygenic indices that summarize genetic variants linked to several...

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Occupational sorting on genes

Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2022

We use a novel approach to explore how people sort into different careers based on their personality skills. We link genetic data from individuals in the Swedish Twin Registry to government register data, making use of new polygenic indices that capture the genetic predispositions of individuals...

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Trust-based work-time and product improvements : evidence from firm level data

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2014

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of … adoption of trust based working hours and innovation seems to be driven by the degree of control and self-management over …

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Outsourcing, offshoring and innovation : evidence from firmlevel data for emerging economies

Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - 2013

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

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Suppliers of multinationals and the forced linkage effect : evidence from firm level data

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger - 2013

Using information on more than 1000 firms in a number of emerging countries, we find quantitative evidence that suppliers of multinationals that are pressured by their customers to reduce production costs or develop new products have higher productivity growth than other firms, including other...

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Foreign direct investment, access to finance, and innovation activity in Chinese enterprises

Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Gong, Yundan (contributor); … - 2008

This paper investigates the link between inward FDI and innovation activity in China, using a very comprehensive and … through which FDI affects the innovation of domestic private and collectively owned enterprises. …

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Services outsourcing and innovation : an empirical investigation

Görg, Holger (contributor); Hanley, Aoife (contributor) - 2008

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 outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as predicted … instrumental variables analysis. -- International services outsourcing ; innovation ; R&D …

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