| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w10603 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 10603 |
| Learning on the Quick and Cheap: Gains from Trade Through Imported Expertise | |
| James R. Markusen; Thomas F. Rutherford | |
| 发表日期 | 2004-07-05 |
| 出版年 | 2004 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Gains from productivity and knowledge transmission arising from the presence of foreign firms has received a good deal of empirical attention, but micro-foundations for this mechanism are weak . Here we focus on production by foreign experts who may train domestic unskilled workers who work with them. Gains from training can in turn be decomposed into two types: (a) obtaining knowledge and skills at a lower cost than if they are self-taught at home, (b) producing domestic skilled workers earlier in time than if they the domestic economy had to rediscover the relevant knowledge through reinventing the wheel'. We develop a three-period model in which the economy initially has no skilled workers. Workers can withdraw from the labor force for two periods of self study and then produce as skilled workers in the third period. Alternatively, foreign experts can be hired in period 1 and domestic unskilled labor working with the experts become skilled in the second period. We analyze how production, training, and welfare depend on two important parameters: the cost of foreign experts and the learning (or absorptive') capacity of the domestic economy. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; International Factor Mobility |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w10603 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/568232 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | James R. Markusen,Thomas F. Rutherford. Learning on the Quick and Cheap: Gains from Trade Through Imported Expertise. 2004. |
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