This paper investigates the productivity effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment using industry and … country level data for 17 OECD countries. The paper relates to a large recent literature on productivity spillovers from … inward FDI, however, we also consider the relationship between productivity and outward FDI in the same estimation. Our …

-1997 period, this paper examines the impact of foreign presence on the productivity of domestic enterprises. We innovate on … domestic performances: productivity gaps between foreign and domestic firms, and productivity levels of MNEs. It is shown that … it is the combination of high gaps and high levels of foreign productivity that has the most positive effects. This leads …

Productivity at Australian container terminals has improved significantly in absolute terms since 1997 according to … this international benchmarking study. For the sample of ship calls and terminals studied, productivity improved also in … relative terms. The productivity improvement at Australian terminals was generally greater than at overseas terminals between …

We describe the relation between welfare growth and productivity growth. We argue that differences in productivity and … productivity growth between sectors or countries are irrelevant from a policy perspective. Specialisation is based on the … comparative advantages of countries. Since, by nature, some sectors witness higher productivity growth than others, so do …

first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of foreign …

productivity growth in semi- industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to operate through the negative impact of … firms to raise productivity in defense of profits, contributing to a low wage–low productivity trap. This paper presents … causal link between increased firm mobility and lower wages, as well as slower productivity growth over the period 1970–2000. …

While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated … at the firm level been used to look at the extent and causes of productivity differentials between exporters and their …, while exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. …