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Much ado about nothing? Do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment?
Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2003
productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265405
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Productivity, welfare and reallocation: theory and firm-level evidence
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009
values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269431
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Financial constraints and innovation: why poor countries don't catch up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269463
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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition: theory and application to the German clothing industry
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271260
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The productivity advantages of large cities: Distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
interactions that increase productivity), possibly reinforced by localised natural advantage. To distinguish between them, we nest … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the … cannot explain spatial productivity differences. This result holds across sectors, city size thresholds, establishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282439
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An innovation index based on knowledge capital investment: definition and results for the UK market sector
Clayton, Tony; Dal Borgo, Mariela; Haskel, Jonathan - 2009
from the EUKLEMS database. Our main findings are as follows. Over 2000-2005, market sector labour productivity grew at 2 … innovation contributed 61% (=(1.24+0.45)/2.74)of labour productivity growth over the period. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271890
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A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
This paper is a review of recent developments of parametric and non-parametric approaches to decompose inequality by subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit characteristics. Different methods of decomposing changes in poverty into growth, redistribution, poverty standard and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261971
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A comment on variance decomposition and nesting effects in two- and three-level designs
Konstantopoulos, Spyros - 2007
Multilevel models are widely used in education and social science research. However, the effects of omitting levels of the hierarchy on the variance decomposition and the clustering effects have not been well documented. This paper discusses how omitting one level in three-level models affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268429
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Unexplained gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions
Elder, Todd E.; Goddeeris, John H.; Haider, Steven J. - 2009
We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naive regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269011
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Identification and estimation of causal mechanisms and net effects of a treatment under unconfoundedness
Flores, Carlos A.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2009
, within a heterogeneous effect environment, and for the cases of a randomly assigned treatment and when selection into the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269294