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Interrelationships between human capital, migration and labour markets in the Western Balkans : an econometric investigation
Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021
The high outward mobility that has characterised the countries in the Western Balkan (WB) region over the past three decades is often seen as tightly linked to severe labour market imbalances and persistently low utilisation of human capital over time. To shed light on these issues, we estimate...
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The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring
Olney, William W.; Pozzoli, Dario - 2018
This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign workers reduces the need for firms to relocate jobs abroad. We exploit a Danish quasi-natural experiment in which immigrants were randomly allocated to municipalities using a...
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Immigration, offshoring and American jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - 2010
continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … industries over the period 2000-2007 and find evidence in favor of a positive productivity effect such that immigration has a …
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Which factors explain the rising ethnic heterogeneity in Italy? : an empirical analysis at province level
Cattaneo, Cristina - 2014
The paper investigates the determinants of ethnic heterogeneity of the Italian provinces. Among other factors, the paper tests empirically whether gradual improvements in distant communication boost the generation of ethnically heterogeneous provinces. Consequently to easier communication,...
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Productivity spillovers from foreign MNEs on domestic manufacturing firms: is co-location always a plus?
Mariotti, Sergio; Mutinelli, Marco; Nicolini, Marcella; … - 2011
The paper analyses productivity spillovers from foreign MNEs on domestic manufacturing firms. Using a database on …
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Production efficiency of firms with mergers and acquisitions in India
Saraswathy, Beena - 2015
Most often, the competition authorities approve combinations based on the tradeoff between the expected efficiency gains and the likely effect on market power creation. However, the realities may be different from the expected synergy creation since merger regulations are ex ante in nature. The...
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Firm-embedded productivity and cross-country income differences
Alviarez, Vanessa; Cravino, Javier; Ramondo, Natalia - 2021
We measure the contribution of firm-embedded productivity to cross-country income differences. By firm …-embedded productivity we refer to the components of productivity that differ across firms and that can be transferred internationally, such … face less competition in less-developed coun-tries, suggesting that firm-embedded productivity in those countries is scarce …
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Multiproduct multinationals and the quality of innovation
Bakhtiari, Sasan; Minniti, Antonio; Naghavi, Alireza - 2013
This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed by firms is fundamental and the extent to which the...
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Multinational production and "soft" industrial policies
Carballo, Jerónimo; Marra de Artiñano, Ignacio; Volpe … - 2020 - This version: January 2020
Multinational production has become increasingly important in recent decades. Countries resort to different industrial policies to influence the geography of this production. In this paper, we focus on a ubiquitous “soft” industrial policy that aims at reducing information barriers -...
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Productivity spillovers from FDI : a firm-level cross-country analysis
Ahn, JaeBin; Aiyar, Shekhar; Presbitero, Andrea - 2024
This paper provides cross-country firm-level evidence on productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI … labour productivity we find: i) positive intra-industry spillover effects for firms located in advanced countries, and ii …
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