Does technological change amount to accumulation of general, and so transferable, human capital? To approach this question I rely on a theoretical framework in which the “technology distance” between industries reduces inter-industry transferability of workers’ skill. Empirically, I use US panel data on individual intra-industry and inter-industry mobility decisions between 1982 and 1990, a per...

The theoretical literature on FDI and knowledge spillovers has predominantly focused on the firms ’ choice between greenfield investment and exports. This is somewhat surprising since almost 80% of all FDI relates to M&As. The few studies that investigate the choice between greenfield investment and M&A with knowledge spillovers almost exclusively focus on North-South issues where knowledge onl...

We estimate FDI spillovers through the gender channel, as an additional measure to total labour channel. This enables us explicitly distinguish role of females in spillovers. In addition, we provide enhanced understanding distinction between manufacturing and services sectors. Using data from Namibia, our reported results show that female channel tend be stronger than The findings also evidence...

Executive Summary It is nowadays generally accepted that inward foreign direct investment (FDI) is crucial as a source of technological spillovers. One of the objectives of this paper is to review the evidence on the quantity and quality of human capital employed by domestic and foreign firms. We examine whether spillovers accrue from MNE activity, and provide a preliminary understanding of why...

Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. Part of this knowledge will reach the firm from external sources. Several authors have documented the existence of these external information flows and have commented on their importance for decisions at the firm level (Adam B. One challenge facing this literature has been the measuremen...

Spillovers have attracted wide attention in the areas of research in economics during the past decades. The reason for the interest in the topic lies in their important role in endogenous growth theory and the explanation of productivity growth. This paper investigates the spatial spillover of different types of public infrastructure on economic growth across EU-28 NUTS-II regions during 1995-2...

While there is widespread agreement among economists and management scholars that knowledge spillovers exist and have important economic consequences, researchers know substantially less about the "micro mechanisms" of spillovers -about the degree to which they are geographically localized, for example, or about the degree to which spillovers from public institutions are qualitatively different...