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Technology, MNEs activity and Italian skill upgrading

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Mara GRASSENI ()

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This paper analyses empirically whether skill-biased technological change and foreign direct investment play a role in explaining the skill-upgrading in Italian manufacturing industry during the 1990s. To test this issue I use, simultaneously, industry level data from two groups of firms: foreign owned firms and Italian multinational firms investing abroad. But while the results do not find evidence of skill upgrading transmitted through R&D effort undertaken by Italian parents, they support the hypothesis of a positive role played by the group of foreign owned firms. This result is confirmed especially in low-tech sectors. However, this positive impact may be partially or completely offset if the share of inward FDI activity increases over a certain threshold. The empirical evidence does not provide support that the R&D effort undertaken in high-tech sectors by each group of firms has influence on Italian skill upgrading

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Paper provided by Department of Economics University of Milan Italy in its series Departemental Working Papers with number 2004-25.

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Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Skill Biased Technological Change; Skill Upgrading;

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F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
O33 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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  1. Manasse, Paolo & Stanca, Luca & Turrini, Alessandro, 2004. "Wage premia and skill upgrading in Italy: why didn't the hound bark?," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 11(1), pages 59-83, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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