Teaching locals new tricks: Foreign experts as a channel of knowledge transfers

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 120-131

  Markusen, James R ^a,b,c,d   Trofimenko, Natalia ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^e KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

Author keywords

F4; Foreign experts; Learning; O19; O47; Productivity; Spillovers; Transmission mechanism

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC WORK; LEARNING; MODELING; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; PRODUCTIVITY; WAGE;

EID: 53849111605     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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