The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between wages, human capital and investment in financial assets with risky returns at the individual level. To explore this relationship from an international perspective, we analyse individual level data from the British Household Panel Survey, the German Socio-Economic Panel and the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Our findings suggest ...

As robots and other computer-assisted technologies take over tasks previously performed by labor, there is increasing concern about the future of jobs and wages. We analyze the effect of the increase in industrial robot usage between 1990 and 2007 on US local labor markets. Using a model in which robots compete against human labor in the production of different tasks, we show that robots may re...

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of some 20,000 SOEs covering the period 1999 to 2005. Our results show that foreign capital participation is associated with higher innovative activity. Inward FDI in the sector has a negative ef...

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of some 30,000 SOEs covering the period 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital participation is associated with higher innovative activity. Inward FDI in the sector has a negative ef...

Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of Chinese SOEs covering the period 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital partic...

Goal: the aim of paper is to assess impact industrial robot imports on productivity Russian enterprises in manufacturing industry. Methodology: panel regression with random effects and least squares methods are used model data. The sample includes 81 794 industry that were active during postcrisis development economy 2011–2018. Findings: direct importers robots tend be larger more international...

Abstract This firm-level study investigates the importance of innovation as a determinant firm productivity and how could impact export survival. is first integration approach, survival approach to explore their linkages at regional level in ASEAN developing countries. Using panel database from World Bank Enterprise Survey, which covers six countries ASEAN—the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, L...

This article investigates the returns to workers’ productive assets, in the form of physical capital, human capital and labour, in an African labour market. We specify a model for the income-generating process grounded in the literature on firms’ production technology, hence abridging the gap between the analysis of individual earnings and the study of firms’ value added. Identification in the ...

T he postwar era is not the first experience the world has had with globalization in all its dimensions. The current episode can, however, be distinguished from its nineteenth century predecessor by its scale-a world of six billion inhabitants, massive movements of goods, services, and capital-as well as by continuously falling communication and transport costs and the instantaneous nature of i...

the study is focused on the public-private partnership in health sector in sri lanka. as a developing country, sri lanka faces a challenging task in order to improve the infrastructure facilities of the country after ending the thirty years of war. there is a requirement to develop the country as a whole along with all the industries such as education, health, transport, agriculture, etc. to me...