This paper examines the effect of the presence of multinational companies on plant survival in the host country. We postulate that multinational companies can impact positively on plant survival through technology spillovers. We study the nature of the effect of multinationals using a Cox proportional hazard model which we estimate using plant level data for Irish manufacturing industries. Our ...

The sources of aggregate productivity growth are explored using detailed data for four-digit U.S. manufacturing industries during 1958-96 and a decomposition formula which allows to quantify the contribution of structural change. Labor productivity as well as total factor productivity are considered and the aggregation is performed with either value-added or employment shares. It is shown that ...

In this paper we study the cyclical behavior of job and worker flows. Wefindfor the Netherlands that employment and unemployment flows are large, relative to the stocks, that both the sum ofemployment in and outflow and the sum of job creation and destruction (je and jd) move countercyclical. Other issues that we examined include the importance ofaggregate vs. sectoral shocks, the persistence o...

This paper considers the nonparametric identification and estimation of the average effect of a dummy endogenous variable in nonseparable models. The analysis includes the case of a dummy endogenous variable in a discrete choice model as a special case. This paper establishes conditions under which it is possible to identify and consistently estimate the average effect of the dummy endogenous v...

In recent years, developing countries like Nigeria with large human and natural resources have attracted huge investment leading to a rise in foreign into the Nigerian economy. To create conditions that would attract more Foreign Direct Investment manufacturing subsector, right infrastructure must be put place. This study examined relationship between Investment, output Nigeria. Time series dat...

This paper develops a dynamic model of innovation and international trade in which agents can direct their research efforts to specific goods the economy. Trade affects direction through its impact on expected market size for an invention, leading two-way relationship between technology absent standard quantitative Ricardian models. Following theory-consistent strategy estimate extent endogenou...

This paper discusses five methodological problems in applied econometrics. These are the problem of measurement, data mining, publication bias, the Duhem-Quine critique, and the non-repeatable nature of historical events. These problems form a third source of error next to two other more common sources of error in econometrics, sampling error and specification error. The paper argues that these...