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We merge firm-level data on ownership linkages with administrative data on German workers to analyze how the position in a business group hierarchy affects workers' wages. To acknowledge that ownership linkages are not onedirectional, we propose an index of hierarchical distance to the ultimate...
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non-affiliates, this is unsurprising given their access to additional resources. However, when we look at innovation at … the country level, we find that the wider consequences of BGs on innovation may be negative. …
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Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
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We analyse changes in market structure in India between 2000 and 2020 using a rich dataset at high levels of disaggregation. We examine the extent to which business groups - notably family-owned groups - have maintained dominant market positions in the Indian economy. We focus on two key...
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We develop a model where, in the first stage, minority individuals have to decide whether or not they want to assimilate to the majority culture while, in the second stage, all individuals (both from the majority and the minority group) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they...
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1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …
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trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The …
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- using different taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - the concrete ways through which an emerging country … where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technology transfer. In the second part …
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manufacturing sector of South Korea. Firms' behavior is defined according to empirical findings on the Korean Innovation Survey 2005 …' likelihood to participate in cooperation with other organizations when conducting innovation activities. These determinants are … cooperation in innovation. The findings indicate possible appropriate (or non-appropriate) policy strategies to be applied …
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This paper presents direct evidence on how firms' innovation is affected by access to knowledgeable labor through co … labor within the network increases innovation. …
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