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The paper aims at testing Florida's concept of the Creative Class using panel data for 323 West German regions for the time period 1975-2004. We apply two different es-timation methods, a panel VAR for the complete data set and a dynamic system ap-proach based on GMM for a modified data set...
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The paper aims at testing Florida's concept of the Creative Class using panel data for 323 West German regions for the time period 1975-2004. Applying a dynamic system approach based on GMM, we find that the local concentration of the Creative Class has predictive power for the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763954
We quantify agglomeration spillovers by estimating the impact of the opening of a large manufacturing plant on the total factor productivity (TFP) of incumbent plants in the same county. We use the location rankings of profit-maximizing firms to compare incumbent plants in the county where the...
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This study was prepared by Nadine Fabritz while she was working at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in October...
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This study was prepared by Nadine Fabritz while she was working at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in October...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742893
and unskilled workers. Based on our findings, we argue that developing countries should improve their FDI environment to … attract FDI and upgrade the quality of unskilled labor by providing education and training, in order to reduce the wage gap. …
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We investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade, as two measures of globalization, on female … the literature, which is mainly based on country-case studies or simple cross-country variation, we find that both, FDI …-female bias in multinational corporations' factor demand once one controls for the interaction of FDI with the size of the …
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productivity growth - is observed for foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, which should be particularly sensitive to productivity … prospects. We look both at aggregate FDI flows and, using a new data set, at FDI flows into the main economic sectors. We make … three points. First, we do not find evidence of an allocation puzzle for aggregate FDI flows. Second, we refine the …
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productivity growth - is observed for foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, which should be particularly sensitive to productivity … prospects. We look both at aggregate FDI flows and, using a new data set, at FDI flows into the main economic sectors. We make … three points. First, we do not find evidence of an allocation puzzle for aggregate FDI flows. Second, we refine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008759323
While quantifying the foreign ownership premium has received a lot of attention in the empirical literature, there is only little known about productivity variations between foreign affiliates of multinational firms. In order to enhance the understanding of the economic causes of this...
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