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Ranis, Gustav - 2011

Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in turn, is necessary to generate …. Secondly, the paper tries to investigate what affects technology change, as represented by TFP. We examine the influence of … openness, FDI, patents and R&D in a 22 country sample and also contrast Asian and Latin American experience. -- Technology …

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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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International Deal Experience and Cross-Border Acquisitions

Stroup, Caleb - 2019

I show that corporate directors' human capital facilitates international investments. Directors' prior cross-border investment experience causally increases current firms' propensities to internationalize business operations through cross-border acquisitions of foreign companies....

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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

We examine the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms’ productivity via human capital transfer from multinational enterprises (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’...

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Foreign Direct Investment in Africa – Does Human Capital Development Matter?

Makoni, Patricia - 2021

The primary objective of this study was to examine the effect of human capital development on foreign direct investment, using a panel of nine African countries, during the period 2009 -2016. We analysed our data using the panel data method. Building on from eclectic theory, the results from the...

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Do Human Capital and Institutional Environment Constrain the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows on Economic Growth in Africa?

Anetor, Friday Osemenshan; Vincent, Olusegun - 2022

This paper investigates the role of human capital and institutional quality in the nexus of foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in 46 African countries between 2002 and 2018. Based on panel data modelling, the empirical findings suggest that FDI in itself does not promote...

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Human capital, firm capabilities, and innovation

Bhaskarbhatla, Ajay; Hegde, Deepak; Peeters, Thomas - 2017

Are differences in inventor productivity due to differences in inventors’ skills or differences in the capabilities of the firms they work for? We analyze a 37-year panel that tracks the patenting of U.S. inventors and find strong evidence for serial correlation in inventors’ productivity....

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Leveraging neuroleadership and adopting AI to improve human capital development in IT&C business organisations

Stăneiu, Roxana-Maria; Stratone, Mădălina-Elena; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 26 (2024) 67, pp. 721-740

This paper aims to explore how business organisations in the Romanian IT&C sector strategically implement neuro-leadership principles to accelerate the adoption and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, thus enhancing human capital development and promoting sustainable...

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Firm-level human capital and innovation : evidence from China

Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017

Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of manufacturing firms from China. We use two firm-level datasets...

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"A nation of poets and thinkers" : less so with Eastern enlargement? ; Austria and Germany

Marin, Dalia - 2004

Many people in the European Union fear that Eastern Enlargement will lead to major job losses. More recently, these fears about job losses have extended to high skill labor and IT jobs. The paper examines with new firm level data whether these fears are justified for the two neighboring...

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