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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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Foreign investment and gender equality in India : competitive pressures or technology transfer?

Poole, Jennifer P.; Sharma, Shruti - 2024

reducing an employer's ability to practice taste-based discrimination. Other studies examine how FDI-induced technology … also allows for technology adoption. These ideas are particularly important in service-oriented sectors, where the highest … with foreign investment to reduce gender inequality in occupations that suffer most from discrimination, while technology …

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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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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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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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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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The heterogeneity of organizational structure changes in Brazilian firms with the arrival of the internet

Leite, Pedro Henrique Brandão; Freguglia, Ricardo da Silva - 2025

results show a more pronounced effect of internet arrival on the share of managers, in technology-intensive sectors. In other …

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