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Product sophistication and spillovers from foreign direct investment

Eck, Katharina; Huber, Stephan - 2014

sophistication and spillovers from FDI. We then explore different channels through which spillovers from multinationals to local … knowledge and technology spillovers to local firms. One way how FDI speeds up growth is that it facilitates the manufacturing of … firms affects the product sophistication of firms in a developing country. This paper aims to fill this gap. We compile an …

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Moving skills from hands to heads: Import of technology and export performance

Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Galeotti, Marzio; Mattozzi, Andrea - 2000

This paper examines the link between imported technologies and a country's export performance, as measured by product quality. The analysis is set in the background of the process of regional integration between the EU and its neighbouring developing countries. The underlying question is whether...

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Premature Deindustrialization through the Lens of Occupations: Which Jobs, Why, and Where?

Kunst, David - 2019

A recent literature documents that manufacturing employment growth in developing countries has been sluggish over the past decades, and that deindustrialization has often set in at historically low levels of income. However, there is little evidence on which kind of jobs are disappearing...

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ICT diffusion and skill upgrading in Korean industries

Hur, Jai-Joon; Seo, Hwan-Joo; Lee, Young Soo - 2002

We examine the relationship between the directly observable indicator of new technology, ICT investment ratio, and skill upgrading by analysing changes in employment and wage structure of 25 Korean industrial sectors over the 1993-99 period. The results show that there has been little...

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R&D (re)location: A bird's eye (re)view

Santos-Paulino, Amelia U.; Squicciarini, Mariagrazia; … - 2008

the role played by knowledge spillovers in shaping such phenomena. It then looks at multinational firms' strategic …

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Effects of Foreign Ownership on Innovation Activities - Empirical Evidence for 12 European Countries

Falk, Martin - 2008

In the present study we investigate the relationship between foreign ownership and innovation activities using the firm-level data of the third Community Innovation Survey (CIS) covering 12 European countries. Probit estimates based on 28,000 firms observations show that foreign owned firms are...

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In-house R&D, technology transfer, and firms' performance

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This study examines the individual and joint impact of technology transfer and in-house R&D on firms' productivity and export performance. We utilize a specially designed survey module on firms' technology competitiveness in Vietnamese manufacturing, which allows us to identify various forms of...

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Pay more, earn less, work harder-new evidence on foreign subsidiary performance and market efficiency in emerging markets

Jensen, Camilla - 2009

-industry spillovers. The effect is estimated to be twice as high within the foreign owned industrial communities as compared to the cross …

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FDI and superstar spillovers: Evidence from firm-to-firm transactions

Amiti, Mary; Duprez, Cédric; Konings, Jozef; Van … - 2023

spillovers from multinationals to domestic firms justify pro-FDI policies. For the first time, we use firm-to-firm transaction … superstars intensive in R&D, IT and/or human capital. In addition to productivity spillovers, we document the transmission of …

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Multinationals, tax holidays, and technology transfer

Miyagiwa, Kaz; Ohno, Yuka - 2008

Host country governments often grant investment incentives to foreign firms locating in their territories. We show that such preferential treatment of foreign firms can facilitate transfer of foreign technology, induce entry by the local firm, and increase host country welfare. However, this...

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