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Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency
Nahm, Daehoon - 2014
This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050617
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Estimating Direct and Indirect Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Firm Productivity in the Presence of Interactions between Firms
Girma, Sourafel - 2015
We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the … indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in … in empirical studies examining a direct causal effect of foreign ownership on firm productivity, namely that of no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032281
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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity : Are Services Firms Different?
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119546
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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
Almeida, Rita - 2007
This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776490
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Firms' Global Engagement and Management Practices
Görg, Holger - 2017
management practices in Germany, we calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013). These indicate how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959060
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Multinationals as Stabilizers? Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth
Alvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - 2021
This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317152
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Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146470
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Credit Constraints and Productive Entrepreneurship in Africa
Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2011
Limited access of entrepreneurs to credit constrains the creation and growth of private firms. In Africa, access to credit is particularly limited for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) due to unclear property rights and the lack of assets that can be used as collateral. This paper presents a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117196
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Financial Constraints and Innovation : Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039087
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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117183