Authors
Bastos, Paulo, Stapleton, Katherine, Taglioni, Daria, Wei, Hannah Yi
- Citation
- “ Bastos, Paulo ; Stapleton, Katherine ; Taglioni, Daria ; Wei, Hannah Yi . 2024 . Firm Networks and Global Technology Diffusion . Policy Research Working Paper; 10905 . © Washington, DC: World Bank . http://hdl.handle.net/10986/42154 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO . ”
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- 52
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- United States of America
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- Policy Research Working Paper; 10905
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- WPS10905
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- CC BY 3.0 IGO
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- World Bank
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- DECRG: Trade & Intl. Integration (DECTI)
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- https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42154
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- 2024-09-13
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Table of Contents
- Introduction 4
- Data and measurement 7
- Online job postings 7
- Identification of new technologies 8
- Industry and region classifications 9
- FactSet data on firm-to-firm relationships 10
- Matching Lightcast job postings to Factset 11
- Measuring technology pioneer locations and additional datasets 12
- Pioneer regions and firms 12
- Distance to pioneer regions and firms 14
- Earnings calls transcripts 14
- Concentration measures 15
- Stylized facts about the global dispersion of new technologies 16
- Technology hiring has become more dispersed across countries and regions over time 16
- Technology hiring is highly concentrated in multinational firms and their supply chains 17
- Technology hiring intensity is higher in richer countries 19
- Geographic proximity matters for the diffusion of technology jobs 20
- Diffusion through multinational supply chains 23
- Empirical specification 24
- Concentration of technology hiring in pioneer locations over time 24
- The role of supply chain linkages to pioneer firms 24
- Results 26
- Diffusion from pioneer firms 26
- Faster diffusion for firms with supply chain linkages 27
- Diffusion through supply chain linkages controlling for distance 28
- Linkages within and outside firm boundaries 29
- Considering multiple linkages 30
- Robustness checks 31
- Studying international linkages only 31
- Excluding pioneers from Silicon Valley 33
- Interacting linkages with affiliates of pioneer firms 34
- Interacting linkages with distance 35
- Technologies that emerged after the Lightcast data start date 36
- Conclusion 38
- Appendix 43
- Lightcast data coverage 43
- Additional Data Processing 45
- Technologies and Keywords 47
- Lightcast-FactSet matching procedure 50
- Pioneer location and industry by technology 52