Cross-Border Flows of People, Technology Diffusion and Aggregate Productivity
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Cross-Border Flows of People, Technology Diffusion and Aggregate Productivity. / Dalgaard, Carl-Johan Lars; Andersen, Thomas Barnebeck.
Cph. : Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2006.Research output: Working paper › Research
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Cross-Border Flows of People, Technology Diffusion and Aggregate Productivity
AU - Dalgaard, Carl-Johan Lars
AU - Andersen, Thomas Barnebeck
N1 - JEL Classification: O33, O47, C21
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - A number of empirical studies have investigated the hypothesis that cross-border flows of goods (international trade) and capital (FDI) lead to international technology diffusion. The contribution of the present paper consists in examining an as yet neglected vehicle for technology diffusion: cross-border flows of people. We find that increasing the intensity of international travel, for the purpose of business and otherwise, by 1% increases the level of aggregate total factor productivity and GDP per worker by roughly 0.2%.
AB - A number of empirical studies have investigated the hypothesis that cross-border flows of goods (international trade) and capital (FDI) lead to international technology diffusion. The contribution of the present paper consists in examining an as yet neglected vehicle for technology diffusion: cross-border flows of people. We find that increasing the intensity of international travel, for the purpose of business and otherwise, by 1% increases the level of aggregate total factor productivity and GDP per worker by roughly 0.2%.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - technology diffusion
KW - productivity
KW - IV estimation
M3 - Working paper
BT - Cross-Border Flows of People, Technology Diffusion and Aggregate Productivity
PB - Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
CY - Cph.
ER -
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