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The Veblen-Gerschenkron Effect of FDI in Mezzogiorno and East Germany
Urban, Dieter M.; Peri, Giovanni - 2002
The presence of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) should benefit local economies. In particular if MNEs are particularly productive compared to domestic firms they may promote learning and catch-up of local firms. Such channel of spillovers from MNEs to local firms is known as the Veblen...
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Evaluación de la eficiencia y la productividad en el sector hotelero español: Un análisis regional
Alberca, Pilar; Parte, Laura - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 19 (2013) 2, pp. 102-111
This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric frontier DEA methodology has been used to assess the levels of efficiency of the hotel firms and Malmquist indices to estimate the productive change in the period 2001-2008....
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Structural development accounting
Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011
We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
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Institutionalized Incentives for Ingenuity – Patent Value and the German Employees’ Inventions Act
Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - 2006
recent survey of 3,350 German inventors to test hypotheses regarding this institution. We conclude from our data that the law … creates substantial monetary rewards for productive inventors. The qualitative responses from our survey confirm this view …
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Tracing Mobile Inventors – The Causality between Inventor Mobility and Inventor Productivity
Hoisl, Karin - 2006
This paper analyzes the causality between inventor productivity and inventor mobility. The results show that the level of education has no influence on inventor productivity. Making use of external sources of knowledge, on the contrary, has a significant effect on productivity. Finally, firm...
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Micro Moments Database for Cross-Country Analysis of ICT, Innovation, and Economic Outcomes
Bartelsman, Eric; Hagsten, Eva; Polder, Michael - 2017
This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments database(MMD) that is made available for researchers through Eurostat. The MMD is an internationally harmonized research database of statistical moments collected from linked...
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Suomen tehdasteollisuuden johtamiskäytäntöjen laatu
Maliranta, Mika; Ohlsbom, Roope - 2017
this gap. As part of the project, an extensive survey concerning management practices has been implemented for Finnish … manufacturing establishments. Its design meticulously follows the Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS), a survey … practices have been recognised as the best in the world in studies that utilise a long-standing survey project called the World …
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Technological Trajectories and FDI: Top Bananas and Underdogs
Santos, Eleonora; Khan, Shahed - 2018
Previous empirical evidence searching for externalities from Foreign Direct investment in Portugal showed mixed results. Using a new database containing 5,045 Portuguese manufacturing firms grouped by technological trajectories, we investigate the occurrence and magnitude of externalities from...
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: A survey of the literature for receiving countries
Nathan, Max - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-20
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
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Foreign ownership and productivity: New evidence from the service sector and the R&D lab
Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Simpson, Helen - 2004
This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two issues neglected in the existing literature Ö the role of multinationals in service sectors and the importance of R&D activity conducted by foreign multinationals. We review...
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