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Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations
Abebe, Girum - 2020
We use a plant level survey to identify interactions between domestic plants and foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ethiopia's manufacturing sector. One third of Ethiopian plants are linked to FDI through labor sharing, supply chains and competition. Technology upgrading most commonly occurs as...
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A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index
Oh, Donghyun - 2009
based on the macroeconomic perspective. In order to consider this condition and to develop an alternative index, a … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159334
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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice - 2012
This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...
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Growth, Development, and Technological Change
Grossmann, Volker - 2007
The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding of the fundamental sources of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777881
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The Value of Information in Technology Adoption
Islam, Asad - 2019
We develop a theoretical model in which technology adoption decisions are based on the information received from others about the quality of a new technology and on their risk attitudes. We test the predictions of this model using a randomized field experiment in Bangladesh. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861281
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European Innovation Dynamics and Us Economic Impact : Theory and Empirical Analysis
Welfens, Paul J.J. - 2015
The role of product innovations is growing in the world economy, and the EU and the US are key players here. The analysis presented herein explains product innovations in the EU25 for the period 2006-2012, namely through lagged R&D (relative to GDP), cumulated FDI inflows (relative to the host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032283
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The 'Dynamic' of Job Competition During the ICT Revolution
Chéron, Arnaud - 2012
Our paper seeks to gain insights on the effect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization process of the labor market fostered by the diffusion of novel technologies. Based on micro data,...
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Migration, Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations
Bahar, Dany - 2016
Do migrants shape the dynamic comparative advantage of their sending and receiving countries? To answer this question we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996555
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Sooner Rather than Later : Social Networks and Technology Adoption
Chowdhury, Shyamal; Satish, Varun; Sulaiman, Munshi; Sun, Yi - 2021
Using data from a randomised experiment in Kenya, we estimate the causal effect of social networks on technology adoption. In this experiment, farmers were invited to information sessions about the use of Tissue Culture Banana (TCB), an in vitro banana cultivation technology. We find that an...
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Wage Structure Effects of International Trade : Evidence from a Small Open Economy
Du Caju, Philip - 2011
In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127724