Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53754 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 174
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
This paper employs a firm-level panel data set for a high-tech cluster in the People's Republic of China to examine knowledge spillovers from multinational enterprises (MNEs) to domestic firms, focusing on the role of MNEs' employment of educated workers. We find that knowledge within MNEs spills over to domestic firms in the same industry through MNEs' employment of workers with graduate-level or overseas education. We also find that Japanese MNEs contribute less to knowledge spillovers than United States MNEs. This is most likely due to the fact that Japanese MNEs in the People's Republic of China do not employ as much educated labor.
JEL: 
F23
O12
O30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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