capital, R&D and interregional spillovers on growth. The findings suggest the existence of some human capital and bounded … knowledge spillovers across regional states in Mexico. En la literatura del crecimiento, la acumulación del capital humano y la …

productivity are interconnected. First we discuss two approaches in the human capital theory, stressing some difficulties that …

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

positive knowledge spillovers, but the effects of intra-industry trade are ambiguous. With regard to sectoral import … penetration, we find that potential positive spillovers are dominated by negative competition effects. This, however, masks the …

Do openness to trade and higher levels of human capital promote faster productivity growth? That they do is a key … on productivity growth. If the level of openness of an economy is doubled the underlying rate of technical progress will … the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred estimator combines high and low …

productivity in transition. The results that are obtained are not in support of the theoretical findings of growth theory that … human capital is a major determinant of growth and productivity. However, eventually we continue to believe that the reasons …

a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity …

analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a …