interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and …

decrease of labor productivity at domestic firms, which is a negative effect. The main purpose of this paper is to estimate …, where the latter is estimated alternatively as labor productivity and as exports. FDI notably increases both labor … productivity and export volumes. Second, we look for spillover or indirect effects. There is statistical evidence that the levels …

productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …

Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two …