spillover benefits to augment the primary benefits of a boost to national income from new investment. This paper begins by … productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a … range of possible spillover channels, robust empirical support for positive spillovers is, at best, mixed. The reasons for …

data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for evidence … of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover effects … or defence R&D. Our findings tentatively suggest that for maximum market sector productivity impact government innovation …

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 …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

We examine theoretically demand in a two-good economy where the demand of one good is influenced by either a spillover … similar choices as others. A positive spillover effect increases the demand for the good with interactions, and a conformity … implication is that spillover in consumption increases the associated derived demand for labor and conformity in consumption makes …

dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor … supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group average. The demand for a good may also be influenced by either a spillover … effect or a conformity effect. Positive spillover increases the demand for the good with interactions, and a conformity …

foreign direct investment on the labour productivity of domestic firms. A key policy change during this time period was the … foreign firm ownership and BEE on labour productivity. Regardless of the empirical specification we find no spill over effects … and no evidence that a greater degree of BEE compliance by foreign firms influences labour productivity. …

accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …. The estimated spillover effect of human capital on TFP growth is positive and statistically significant, which is very … robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The spillover effect appears to be much stronger before 1994. We …