Most research suggests that spillovers commonly benefit the productivity of LDCs' local firms from market contacts with … foreign subsidiaries, but little attention has gone to where those spillovers might be large, where nonexistent. In Particular … implications for the nature and extent of spillovers from foreign subsidiaries. The analysis also yields predictions how spillovers …

importance of different channels of technology transfer through FDI and its impact on productivity growth of local firms. In … addition to direct effects, we also distinguish between intra-industry (horizontal) and inter-industry (vertical) spillovers … important productivity effect for local firms in transition countries. Direct effects of FDI are found to provide on average an …

accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …

(i.e., spillovers). Providing evidence from a larger sample of countries and greater variety of firms than existing … studies, with separate estimates by firm size, age, and sector, we show: a) backward spillovers (stemming from supplying a … foreign firm in the host country or exporting to a foreign firm) are consistently positive; b) horizontal spillovers are …

unemployment rates. Although this capital and labour mobility pattern is consistent with the presence of regional skill spillovers …

productivity spillovers from FDI taking place through contacts between foreign affiliates and their local suppliers in upstream … sectors, but there is no indication of spillovers occurring within the same industry. The data indicate that local firms …

This paper investigates whether the existence of knowledge spillovers, differences in the capacity of firms to … discrete choice models. The empirical exercise provides evidence on the positive link between spillovers and the innovative … spillovers. This ability not only works through firms’ R&D capabilities, but also through such factors as the quality of the …

) Does wage-setting behavior in privatized firms resemble that of state or private sector firms? And (2) Do rewards to skills … hours worked across sectors. Evidence also indicates that newly privatized state enterprises pay higher wages than state … enterprises in some years, even though the distribution of skills and returns to skills in the two sectors appear to be quite …