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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276931
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615502
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371087
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328599
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615925
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142371
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225137
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Education and Human Capital Development to Strengthen R&D Capacity in the ASEAN
Tereso S. TULLAO, Jr.; CABUAY, Christopher James - Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) - 2013
produce the necessary technical workers. At higher levels of economic development, the formation of highly skilled technicians …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010838312