Relative Backwardness, Direct Foreign Investment, and the Transfer of Technology: A Simple Dynamic Model

Findlay, Ronald

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“…One easy way was the attraction of skilled foreign labor in order to apply foreign skills in the host country and eventually transfer it to the natives. The literature widely agrees that this was the common way to diffuse knowledge during the Early Modern Ages and that host countries benefited substantially (Ciriacono, 2005;Findlay, 1978). Furthermore, it is agreed that Calvinists contributed substantially to the transfer of knowledge dur-ing that time.…”

Section: Economic Effects Of Migrationmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia

Hornung

2014

American Economic Review

204

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This paper analyzes the long-term effect of technological diffusion on productivity caused by immigration of skilled workers. In 1685 religious persecution drove highly skilled Huguenots into the backward BrandenburgPrussia where they established themselves and transferred technological knowledge to natives. We find that textile manufactories installed in towns hosting the Huguenots achieved higher productivity than others due to diffusion, even 100 years after immigration. Identification is based on an instrumental variable approach exploiting variation in the settlement of Huguenots which results from population losses due to plagues during the Thirty Years' War, effectively eliminating worries of selectivity in the settlement pattern. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may

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Section: Economic Effects Of Migrationmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…10 Many others have found that the size of the technological gap determines the speed of a catch-up process (Gerschenkron, 1962;Findlay, 1978;Vandenbussche et al, 2006). from accommodating the Huguenots.…”

Section: Knowledge Lead and Transfermentioning

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Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia

Hornung

2014

American Economic Review

204

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“…This approach emphasises the externalities or indirect impact on local firms in an industry subject to inward FDI [Findlay, 1978;Das, 1987;Walz, 1997]. The very presence of multinational corporations exerts contagion, demonstration and competition effects on local firms and therefore helps raise their productivity.…”

Section: Fdi and Productivitymentioning

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The impact of foreign direct investment on labour productivity in the Chinese electronics industry

Liu

Parker

Vaidya

et al. 2001

International Business Review

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Foreign direct investment (FDI) may have a positive impact on labour productivity in recipient industries through direct introduction of capital, technology and management skills and indirectly through spillover effects on domestic firms. This study uses a model intended to examine the overall effects of inward FDI in the Chinese electronics industry. A panel data set is used for 41 sub-sectors of the industry in 1996 and 1997 having differing levels of FDI. Labour productivity is modelled as dependent on the degree of foreign presence in the industry and other variables, namely capital intensity, human capital and firm size for scale factors. Various econometric estimation techniques for panel data are compared to obtain an appropriate statistical model. The results suggest that foreign presence in the industry was associated with higher labour productivity.

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“…According to [8], the multinationals firms have a spillover effect on domestic firms which provides the diffusion of technology through physical contact between the holder of technology and one who will receive it. Thus the knowledge brought by the multinational firms are likely to diffuse through links between suppliers and customers.…”

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The Role of Foreign Presence in the Technology Transfer

Naanaa¹,

Sellaouti²

2013

IJTEF

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Abstract-Many empirical studies have shown that a large part of the growth productivity is realized through foreign technology, so the objective of this paper is to test the role of foreign presence in the technology transfer through the analysis of its impact on productivity for Tunisian manufactory sector-based over the period 1990-2012. To this end, econometric equations that relate the total factor productivity (TFP), with foreign direct investment (FDI) that reflects technological spillovers will be tested. However, we use the generalized method of moments to determine the TFP.Index Terms-Diffusion of technology, foreign direct investment (FDI), productivity.

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Relative Backwardness, Direct Foreign Investment, and the Transfer of Technology: A Simple Dynamic Model

Cited by 898 publications

References 3 publications

Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia

Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia

The impact of foreign direct investment on labour productivity in the Chinese electronics industry

The Role of Foreign Presence in the Technology Transfer

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