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Small firms, human capital, and productivity in Asia

Vandenberg, Paul; Trinh, Long Q. - 2016

The paper analyzes the link between human capital and firm-level productivity in five Asian countries. It draws on a dataset of over 4,000 enterprises and considers both the prior educational attainment of workers and in-service training programs of enterprises. Differences between small,...

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Productivity and employment in APAC economies : a comparison with the EU using firm-level information

Di Mauro, Filippo; Hoang, Minh Duy; Morgan, Peter J. - 2021

This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our...

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Is hiring foreign worth it? : spillover from foreign firms' human capital and local firms' productivity

Pyun, Ju Hyun; Sun, Jong-in - 2022

This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms' productivity via human capital transfer from MNEs to local firms. Using the firm-level data for 2010-2015 from the Republic of Korea, we identify human capital spillovers using local firms' hired permanent foreign...

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Technology, innovation, and firm competitiveness : firm level analysis in Cambodia

Hing Vutha; Shandre Mugan Thangavelu; Kong, Ratha - 2023

The paper examines the innovation and competitiveness of firms, especially with regard to the channels of technology … transfer and the nature of innovation activities that influence firm performance in the Cambodian economy. Despite the growing … importance of innovation, there has been no empirical analysis of the factors affecting technological and innovative development …

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Dynamics of innovation and internationalization among small and medium-sized enterprises in Viet Nam

Trinh, Long Q. - 2016

This paper examines the bidirectional causality between innovation and internationalization in the context of …, past internationalization has a positive effect on process innovation, but past process innovation does not have a … process innovation and the internationalization decision. Our results, however, do not show dynamic interdependence between …

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Manufacturing as the key engine of economic growth for middle-income economies

Su, Dan; Yao, Yang - 2016

This paper revisits the role of the manufacturing sector during the middle-income stage. By exploiting a large dataset that covers internationally comparable sectoral information, we prove that the manufacturing sector is imbued with three important characteristics. First, for middle-income...

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Credit market development and firm innovation : evidence from the People's Republic of China

Shang, Hua; Song, Quanyun; Wu, Yu - 2017

provinces in the People's Republic of China, we find that credit market development enhances firms' product innovation …

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