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Technology, Skills, and Globalization : Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2019
-skill occupations. We estimate the determinants of workers' RTI as a function of technology (computer use), globalization …. Globalization (as measured by sector foreign value-added share) increases RTI in poorer countries but reduces RTI in richer … globalization also important. Technology contributes the most to the differences in RTI among workers in high-skilled occupations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870142
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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
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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza - 2013
In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092587
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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
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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
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The Effects of Globalization and Technology on the Elasticity of Substitution
Sala, Hector - 2017
, in contrast, that σ is affected by both globalization and technology, and that different intensities in these drivers … substitution between capital and labor is below unity; that it increases along with the degree of globalization; but it decreases …-output ratio on the labor share irrespective of the degree of globalization (which would be consistent with an average aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950903
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The Firm Size Distribution Across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
Poschke, Markus - 2014
How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057902
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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
Bahar, Dany - 2020
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants' receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 60 percent more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold increase in the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848978
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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments
Bohnstedt, Anna - 2011
We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131927
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 2010
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136032