time, the model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers … experience contributes more to local firms' than to MNEs' productivity. In this case, experienced MNE workers are hired by …

funding for R&D - and defense-related R&D in particular - on privately conducted R&D, and its ultimate effect on productivity … privately funded R&D. An analysis of wages and employment suggests that the increase in private R&D expenditure reflects actual … international spillovers, as increases in government-funded R&D in a particular industry and country raise private R&D in the same …

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R …&D spillovers as well as remainder, input-output-related linkage effects are accounted for, the latter of which we model by a …

We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …

(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …

-segment variation of the estimated effects is mostly driven by firm productivity levels rather than by search frictions or the …