Abstract This paper studies whether firms employing immigrant workers are more resilient to an increase in competition their export markets. Exploiting the surge of Chinese imports following its accession World Trade Organization and using a sample French manufacturing exporters from 2002 2015, we find that growth rate foreign market has negative effect on both two-year survival sales market. f...

The paper analyzes the ongoing urban transformation and delineates an underlying rationale which enables the comprehension of the current dual character of the Arab city with particular reference to the case of Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. The re-reading of city form is mainly based on the critical interpretation of the mechanisms of urban morphology in relation to both global economic imp...

This paper examines the link between offshoring and technical change measured by patent total factor productivity in order to sort out causality. It applies instrumental variable matching approaches on a panel of more than 7000 Swedish manufacturing firms over period 2001–2014, identify offshoring-related intermediate imports United Nations Broad Economic Categories system. Accounting for self-...

Globalization has drastically improved access of technological latecomers to advanced technologies and provides a unique opportunity for low-income countries to raise per capita income. This paper shows that low-income countries as a group have in fact substantially increased the GDP-ratio of technology imports over the past few years, but that there are large cross-country discrepancies in tec...

Imports of goods that embody foreign technology can raise a country’s output directly as inputs into production and indirectly through reverse engineering of these goods, contributing to domestic imitation and innovation. This paper quantifies spillovers from high technology imports to domestic imitation and innovation in both developed and developing countries. It then considers the contributi...