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productivity growth than other firms, including other host country suppliers of multinationals. These findings provide first …
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We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, namely that (i) multinationals use domestically produced inputs in the same proportion as imported...
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catching up to the (world) efficiency standard given by foreign-owned firms; and the distance of the Russian firms to the … Consensus policies have not enabled domestic firms in either country to start catching up to the world standard …
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. Spillovers from FDI are identified by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among domestic plants in districts …
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accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …
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productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output … growth, far less attention has been paid to its effects on productivity growth. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis … of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that …
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Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data … show that there is no productivity effect of materials offshoring, while business services offshoring leads to productivity …
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productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying … of human capital on regional productivity and convergence, but reveals no evidence of any positive geographical …
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Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of …
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This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits … a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU …-calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital, i.e., intangible capital, produce productivity …
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