Similar Search Results

Meschi, Elena F. - 2007

superior ability in serving the differentiated and high-quality markets of the developed world …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776137

Globalization, Structural Change and Innovation in Emerging Economies : The Impact on Employment and Skills

Vivarelli, Marco - 2018

This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909972

Business Visits, Knowledge Diffusion and Productivity

Piva, Mariacristina - 2016

The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977059

Drivers and Impacts in the Globalization of Corporate R&D : An Introduction Based on the European Experience

Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro - 2014

The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: "Globalization and Corporate R&D" forthcoming …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068355

Globalization, Technological Change and Labor Demand : A Firm Level Analysis for Turkey

Meschi, Elena F. - 2015

This paper studies the interlinked relationship between globalization and technological upgrading in affecting … with the world market. The empirical analysis is performed at firm level within a dynamic framework using a 2 2 equations …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012811

The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet A. - 2014

countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061654

Globalization and Employment : Imported Skill Biased Technological Change in Developing Countries

Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namely the relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-based employment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs). In doing so, this paper provides a direct...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317026

The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries

Lee, Eddy; Vivarelli, Marco - 2021

In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI … other main findings of the paper are that: 1) the employment effect can be very diverse in different areas of the world …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318038

Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?

Estrin, Saul - 2011

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129940

Human Capital and Growth : Specification Matters

Sunde, Uwe - 2011

This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the different channels through which human capital affects growth. A systematic replication of earlier...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120134