We conduct an empirical investigation into the effects of foreign ownership on worker skills using firm-level data from Spain. To control for endogeneity bias due to selection into foreign ownership, we combine a difference-in-differences approach with a propensity score weighting estimator. Our...

The goal of this paper is to investigate the impact of technology investments on production efficiency in manufacturing companies and how different these relationships are for low-technology and high-technology companies. The empirical part was based on the analysis of 2,848 large, small and...

TIME HORIZONS AND TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 The Issue and the Approach -- THE APPROACH AND METHOD OF THE STUDY -- DO U.S. CORPORATE EXECUTIVES HAVE SHORT TIME HORIZONS? -- MACROECONOMIC EVIDENCE: RELATIVE RATES OF INVESTMENT IN FIXED...