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SME policy and firms' productivity in Latin America
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo - 2009
American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271309
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Opening the Black Box: Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion
Blackwood, G. Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - 2022
An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426443
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SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578127
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Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations
Abebe, Girum; McMillan, Margaret; Serafinelli, Michel - 2020
. Spillovers from FDI are identified by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among domestic plants in districts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270100
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Globalization and Firm Performance
Catão, Luis A. V.; de Faria, Pedro; Martins, António; … - 2023
-market participation having generally larger positive effects on productivity and negative effects on unit labor costs. All four channels …, the marginal productivity gains of foreign-ownership are greatly reduced when the firm is already an exporter. Breaking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296647
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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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Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment?
Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703573
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262073
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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development : Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2005
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271756
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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703404