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its relation to various aspects of corporate financial policies and corporate innovation, and draw policy implications for … enhancing corporate innovation. First, we discuss how management quality has been measured in the recent empirical literature … investment policies, and on corporate innovation. Third, we consider the recent empirical literature on the relationship between …
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This study investigates empirically how human capital, measured by educational attainment, is related to income distribution. The regressions, using a panel data set covering a broad range of countries between 1980 and 2015, show that a more equal distribution of education contributes...
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This paper uses the task content model of occupations to investigate whether technology and trade have had differential effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers based on whether they have routine manual, routine...
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Market-oriented reforms, such as liberalizing trade and encouraging foreign direct investment, can generate large efficiency gains for a country. However, there is also concern that lower-skilled workers are increasingly being replaced by technology and that more globalized markets are harming...
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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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Corporate innovation propels both company performance and economic growth. Yet, measuring corporate innovation proves …, patent citations and new product announcements. I posit that each of these signs of corporate innovation provides a noisy … eliminates useful information, suggesting that all of the observable signals about corporate innovation should be included in …
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This paper adopts a structural framework to study the process of indigenous innovation and its impact on firm … almost 70,000 private Chinese firms operating in the PRC from 2004 to 2007. Relying on a structural innovation framework, the …'s decision to innovate; (ii) the innovation effort; (iii) the innovation throughput; and (iv) the firm performance. The results …
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The development of digital technology provides opportunities for every country to increase its economic growth. Digital technologies are changing the workplace, providing a significant opportunity for nations and companies to boost productivity, efficiency, and growth. The speed of digital...
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The paper examines the innovation and competitiveness of firms, especially with regard to the channels of technology … transfer and the nature of innovation activities that influence firm performance in the Cambodian economy. Despite the growing … importance of innovation, there has been no empirical analysis of the factors affecting technological and innovative development …
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This paper revisits the role of the manufacturing sector during the middle-income stage. By exploiting a large dataset that covers internationally comparable sectoral information, we prove that the manufacturing sector is imbued with three important characteristics. First, for middle-income...
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