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Financial Constraints and Innovation : Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2014

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements …

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Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment : Theory and Evidence

Branstetter, Lee - 2010

which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts that IPR reform in the South …, Northern resources will be reallocated to Ramp;D, driving an increase in the global rate of innovation. We test the model …

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Internationalized Production in Developed and Developing Countries and in Industry Sectors

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021

Internationalized production, that is, production in a country controlled by firms based in another country, grew from about 4.5% of world output in 1970 to over 7% in 1995. The importance of internationalized output fell substantially in developing countries until around 1990 but has been been...

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Endogenous Product Cycles

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021

We construct a model of the product cycle featuring endogenous innovation and endogenous technology transfer …

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Innovation, Growth, and Dynamic Gains from Trade

Hsu, Wen-Tai; Riezman, Raymond G.; Wang, Ping - 2022

trade affects the incentives for technological advancement. We construct an innovation-based endogenous growth model of … North-South trade. There are two types of innovation: one by the North to upgrade the general purpose technology (GPT) and … estimates where the effects of GPT-driven innovation are eliminated. The share of dynamic gains from trade is about 78% of the …

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Investment in New Activities and the Welfare Cost of Uncertainty

Aizenman, Joshua - 2022

Recent literature has highlighted the importance of new activities in development and growth. It was shown that trade distortions such as tariffs are associated with first-order costs stemming from the induced drop in the formation of new activities. This paper demonstrates that uncertainty may...

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Effects of Welfare Reform on Vocational Education and Training

Dave, Dhaval - 2011

Exploiting variation in welfare reform across states and over time and using relevant comparison groups, this study estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on welfare: vocational education and training. The...

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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes Over the Life-Cycle

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2011

Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...

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Living Up to Expectations : How Job Training Made Women Better Off and Men Worse Off

Acevedo, Paloma - 2017

We study the interaction between job and soft skills training on expectations and labor market outcomes in the context of a youth training program in the Dominican Republic. Program applicants were randomly assigned to one of 3 modalities: a full treatment consisting of hard and soft skills...

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Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-Sponsored General Training

Hoffman, Mitchell - 2017

Firms may be reluctant to provide general training if workers can quit and use their gained skills elsewhere. “Training contracts” that impose a penalty for premature quitting can help alleviate this inefficiency. Using plausibly exogenous contractual variation from a leading trucking firm,...

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