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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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Poland's Education and Training: Boosting and Adapting Human Capital

O'Brien, Paul; Paczynski, Wojciech - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

.oecd.org/eco/surveys/poland).<P>Éducation et formation de la Pologne : Dynamiser et adapter le capital humain<BR>Les raisons pour lesquelles il est important d …'avoir un système d'enseignement et de formation efficace sont d'ordre à la fois social et économique. Pour l'économie polonaise … sur le juste équilibre entre financements publics et privés. Du côté de la formation des adules, les taux de participation …

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Improving School-to-work Transitions in New Zealand

Bibbee, Alexandra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

. Néanmoins, les débouchés professionnels sont largement déterminés par la formation initiale, autre domaine dans lequel la …’ont pas de bons résultats scolaires. Ces handicaps rencontrés au stade de la formation initiale se manifestent par des taux …

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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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Skills, division of labor and performance in collective inventions: Evidence from the open source software

Giuri, Paola; Ploner, Matteo; Rullani, Francesco; … - 2006

This paper investigates the role of skills and the division of labor among participants in collective inventions. Our analysis draws on a large sample of projects registered at Sourceforge.net, the world's largest incubator of open source software activity. We test the hypothesis that the level...

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Evidence on the Impact of Education on Innovation and Productivity

Junge, Martin; Severgnini, Battista; Sørensen, Anders - 2012

This paper investigates the importance of the educational mix of employees at the rm level for the probability of rms being involved in innovation activities. We distinguish between four types of innovation: product, process, organisational, and marketing innovation. Moreover, we consider three...

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EXTERNALIDADES DA INVESTIGACAO UNIVERSITARIA SOBRE A PRODUTIVIDADE DAS EMPRESAS: ANALISIS DE LA ECONOMIA PORTUGUESA EN 2001-2004.

Pereira O.; Correia, I.M. - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 7 (2007) 2

A literatura económica recente salienta o papel da cognição e dos spillovers do conhecimento intra e inter empresas, assim como entre Universidades e empresas, assumindo-se que estas relações constituem um mecanismo de transmissão do conhecimento e que são uma condição necessária,...

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Exploring and yet failing less: Learning from exploration, exploitation and human capital in R&D

Pablo D’Este; Marzucchi, Alberto; Rentocchini, Francesco - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2014

Exploration is both a risky activity and a key ingredient in the strategy of firms that strive for radical innovations. This paper investigates a dual facet of the exploratory component of R&D activities with regards to innovation failures: while exploration increases firms’ exposure to...

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