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Total Factor Productivity Growth and Job Turnover in Mexican Manufacturing Plants in the 1990s
Calderon-Madrid, Angel; Voicu, Alexandru - 2004
This paper analyzes the performance of Mexican manufacturing firms following trade liberalization within a very specific institutional setting: The North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We compare plants' productivity growth and patterns of job creation and destruction across their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261765
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Total Factor Productivity Growth and Job Turnover in Mexican Manufacturing Plants in the 1990s
Calderon-Madrid, Angel; Voicu, Alexandru - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper analyzes the performance of Mexican manufacturing firms following trade liberalization within a very specific institutional setting: The North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We compare plants' productivity growth and patterns of job creation and destruction across their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762031
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Changes in Female Employment in Mexico: Demographics, Economics, and Policies
Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; Freije-Rodriguez, Samuel; … - 2020
The unemployment and labor force participation gender gaps narrowed in Mexico after the 2008 global economic crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270082
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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
Utar, Hale - 2022
longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits … plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the homicide rate during the outbreak of drug-trade related violence in Mexico … violence has significant distortive effects on domestic industrial development in Mexico and shed light on the characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351699
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Drivers and impacts in the globalization of corporate R&D: An introduction based on the European experience
Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2011
The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts...
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Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Isphording, Ingo E.; … - 2021
We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel data which approximately covers the universe of R&D-active plants in Germany, we exploit around 7,300 changes in the municipal business tax rate over the period 1987–2013 for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882406
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The Identification of Time-Invariant Variables in Panel Data Model: Exploring the Role of Science in Firms’ Productivity
Amoroso, Sara; Bruno, Randolph Luca; Magazzini, Laura - 2022
Recent literature has raised the attention on the estimation of time-invariant variables both in a static and a dynmamic framework. In this context, Hausman-Taylor type estimators have been applied, relying crucially on the distinction between exogenous and endogenous variables (in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470471
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Innovation and SMEs Patent Propensity in Korea
Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - 2015
This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims, we apply robust regression analysis to estimate the models to test 5 research hypotheses using 263 firm level data located at Gwangju region in Korea. Our empirical results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481684
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Racing against Time in Research: A Study of the 1995 U.S. Patent Law Amendment
Kim, Jinyoung - 2017
Teamwork in research has been on the rise and so has the size of R&D teams. This paper offers an explanation for increasing team size that we call the "racing against time" hypothesis: With innovation races more competitive globally, R&D firms need to finish research projects as quickly as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744527
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Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of 'Bottom-up' Reforms to U.S. Defense Research
Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021
When investing in research and development (R&D), institutions must decide whether to take a top-down approach – soliciting a particular technology – or a bottom-up approach in which innovators suggest ideas. This paper examines a reform to the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation...
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