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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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From bricks to brains : increasing the contribution of knowledge-based capital to growth in Ireland
Haugh, David - 2013
With sound framework conditions, fine universities, good infrastructure and policies friendly towards foreign direct investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and entrepreneurship are on the right track, but investment in...
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Share to scare : technology sharing in the absence of intellectual property rights
Jansen, Jos - 2009
effect determines the technology-sharing incentives. In equilibrium at most one firm shares some of its technologies. For … similar technology distributions, there exists an equilibrium in which nobody shares. If the technology distributions are …
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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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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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"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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Technology and human development
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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Measuring process innovation outputs and understanding their implications for firms and workers : evidence from Pakistan
Wadho, Waqar; Chaudhry, Azam - 2024
New processes significantly affect firms and workers; however, due to a lack of quantitative indicators, our understanding of the measures, determinants, and impacts of new processes remains limited. Drawing on unique data from Pakistan, we analyzed five different measures of process innovation...
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Learning and collusion in new markets with uncertain entry costs
Bloch, Francis; Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen - 2011
This paper analyses an entry timing game with uncertain entry costs. Two firms receive costless signals about the cost of a new project and decide when to invest. We characterize the equilibrium of the investment timing game with private and public signals. We show that competition leads the two...
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Composition of international capital flows : a survey
Kirabaeva, Koralai; Razin, Asaf - 2010
We survey several key mechanisms that explain the composition of international capital flows: foreign direct investment, foreign portfolio investment and debt flows (bank loans and bonds). In particular, we focus on the following market frictions: asymmetric information in capital markets and...
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