The 2008 crisis has called to further investigate the impact of global engagement on firm performance. We focus on the link between Italian firms' involvement in international activities and their heterogenous performance in terms of survival in the context of the recent crisis. This topic has...

This paper investigates productivity spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to the host country. By using firm-level data from Cambodia and by regressing domestic firms' total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity on FDI, the study reveals that domestic firms significantly...

The Belgium International Remittance Senders Household Survey (IRSHS) is employed to investigate the factors influencing remittance behaviour of the African diaspora in Belgium. The rich information contained in the dataset makes it possible to include both senders' and recipients'...

Using household economic survey data for the years 2005-06 and 2007-08, we examine the economic, demographic and geographical characteristics of remittance receiving households in Pakistan. We find that altruism is the most likely motive behind the remittances sent back by Pakistanis living...

This paper deals with the issue of the heterogeneity of productivity among three different groups of multinational firms according to where they invest. We use the procedure developed by Di Nardo et al (1996) and Melly (2005) to decompose the productivity gap across the entire productivity...

International migration flows constitute one of the most policy-relevant elements of modern economies. The Italian experience is a case of particular interest given the rapid growth of immigration flows, the large number of countries of origin involved, and regional economic heterogeneity. This...

This paper examines whether immigration has a positive influence on the duration of unemployment from a macroeconomic perspective. The integration of immigrants into the labor market is a recurrent topic in literature on the economic consequences of immigration, and it is a central concern to...

Chao and Yu (2002) study immigration impact in a host country in the presence of imperfect competition. In their two sector model, when the monopolized non-traded service sector is skilled labor intensive, skilled labor immigration improves the welfare of the host country residents but unskilled...