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What puts productivity spillovers into effect through worker mobility across firms? Productivity difference between the … flows from foreign-owned companies provide productivity gains for the firm. We argue here that skill-relatedness across … employee-employer linked panel data from 2003-2011 imply that productivity gap rules out the effect of foreign spillovers …
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things equal. Increased participation in higher education enhances productivity progress and is accompanied by rising wage …
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positive change in labour productivity during economic crisis. During boom years churning is related to a negative change in … labour productivity. In both cases a slightly upward convex pattern can be noticed. Only in services during the crisis did … foreign firms have a stronger positive relationship between labour churning and labour productivity changes than domestic …
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This paper, relies on a theoretical and conceptual framework of labour productivity and Intellectual Property Rights … between patents, trademarks and productivity growth. In this sense, the better valorisation of patents must be considered in a …
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We compare the wages of skilled workers in multinational enterprises (MNEs) versus domestic firms, the earnings of domestic firm workers with past, future and no MNE experience, and estimate how the presence of ex-MNE peers affects the wages of domestic firm employees. The analysis relies on...
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This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms' productivity via human capital …' productivity, particularly firms with higher growth in hiring skilled foreign employees. This human capital spillover from FDI is …
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We examine the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms’ productivity via human capital transfer from … local firms’ productivity, particularly firms with higher growth in hiring skilled foreign employees. This human capital …
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Liberalization of foreign trade and investment raises the domestic ratio of skilled to unskilled wages (skill premium) if the country has a sufficiently well-educated workforce, but lowers it otherwise. Wide wage inequality is undesirable on equity grounds, especially in poor countries where the...
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, the direct effects of FDI-related as well as import-related spillovers on domestic productivity are confirmed. Furthermore … FDI implying strong joint effect on domestic productivity. When consider- ing quality-adjusted human capital, countries … with better human capital are found to benefit not only from direct productivity effects, but also from absorption and …
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This paper investigates to which extent outward foreign direct investment (FDI) affects domestic wages. We are first interested in the raw wage differential between multinational and domestic firms. Results reveal that multinational companies pay a wage premium to their employees, even within...
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