Our estimates, based on large firm-level and industry-level data sets from eighteen countries, suggest that FDI and trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The FDI effect is more pronounced for firms from advanced...

In this paper we compare the nature and determinants of outflows from unemployment in the case of the Czech and Slovak Republics, which in early 1990's experienced a process close to a controlled experiment. Overall, our study suggests that the exceptionally low unemployment rate in the Czech...

In this paper we compare the nature and determinants of outflows from unemployment in the case of the Czech and Slovak Republics which in early 1990's experienced a process close to a controlled experiment. Overall, our study suggests that the exceptionally low unemployment rate in the Czech...