concentration of migrants with low parental education, while migrants with high parental education are found to have no impact. The …

This paper examines the impact of immigration on labour productivity in Canada. Immigration is a factor that has been … largely ignored in the literature on Canadian productivity growth. A simplified growth accounting approach is utilized to … estimate the reduction in labour productivity in Canada (as measured by GDP per worker) that can be attributed to the poor …

This paper studies the long and short-run relationship between oil exports, non oil GDP and investment in five major …

stricter immigration laws. Third, we estimate the impact of immigration flows on employment, investment and productivity in the …, and total factor productivity is not affected. These results imply that immigration increases the total GDP of the … new dataset on migration flows and stocks and on immigration laws for 14 OECD destination countries and 74 sending …

focuses on the impact of R&D and patents on firms’ performance and productivity, we examine data on actual investment …This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in … amounts of employment and capital investment in North America and Europe. In contrast to much of the existing literature which …

, namely productivity, employment, real wages and investment, at the state level and over the period 1974-1998. Our results … state real wages and productivity, total highway length is a key variable in determining the level of investment in fixed …

Since the mid 1900’s, economist have come to recognize the role of innovative activity in firms productivity growth … (competitive) obstacles to innovation; and strengthening the knowledge base through investment in education, research and …

long-run perspective by assessing the relationships among population growth and a plethora of investment dynamics: public … findings reveal a long-run positive causal linkage from population growth to only public investment. But for domestic … investment, permanent fluctuations in human capital affect permanent changes in other forms of investments. Robustness checks on …

investment indicators: public, private, foreign and domestic investments. Using asymmetric panels on data spanning from 1977 to … 2007, we investigate effects of population growth on investment from Granger causality models. Our findings reveal a long …-run positive causal linkage from population growth to only public investment. But for domestic investment, permanent fluctuations …