Foreign direct investment and spillovers through workers’ mobility
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Foreign direct investment and spillovers through workersメ mobility
We analyze a model where a multinational firm can use a superior technology in a foreign subsidiary only after training a local worker. Technological spillovers from foreign direct investment arise when this worker is later hired by a local firm. Pecuniary spillovers arise when the foreign affiliate pays the trained worker a higher wage to prevent her from moving to a local competitor. We study...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of International Economics
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0022-1996
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-1996(00)00069-6