Paper quantifies the effects of rural-urban wage differentials and urban unemployment on aggregate productivity, wages and …

We study the role of productivity and corporate taxation as driving forces of FDI among OECD countries in the presence …, suggest that there are marked differences in the sensitivity of FDI flows from the U.S. to productivity and taxes in OECD … FDI flows among 18 OECD countries over the period 1987 to 2003.The sensitivity of these flows to productivity in the U …

capita income, whereas its labour productivity level -- notably in manufacturing -- remained relatively high. The Dutch …

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …

indirect effects of foreign direct investment on measured firm level productivity depend on a number of firm specific features …

This paper shows how misleading is the facile contrast of Europe following a path of high productivity growth, high … shocks may initially create a positive trade-off between productivity and unemployment, they set in motion a dynamic path of … contributions of this paper are to show how a productivity-unemployment trade-off might emerge and how it might subsequently …

We study the relation between workers' skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique dataset of Italian … production function that depends on the skill composition show that a firm's productivity is positively related to skill …

. Examining the sources of labour productivity growth in Mexican manufacturing, however, does not provide support for this … conclusion. Although we find that labour productivity levels vary almost in direct relation to establishment size, labour … productivity growth shows no systematic variation by size class. In fact, small establishments have had the same rate of labour …

substitution effect between institutional ownership and product market competition (and managerial entrenchment generally), the …

, scope, and productivity. In the model, firms are heterogeneous in how well they cope with expanding their product range. The …-discount puzzle" found in the data. Globalization induces a merger wave that leads to an improvement in average productivity. This … improvement is not due to selection effects but rather due to product-level productivity effects. The model predicts that …