authors analyze how the supply of skills and legal origin of the country affect the wage setting process. The wage analysis … members, whereas in civil-law countries, only older members enjoy higher wages. The authors also contrast wage premia with … productivity. …

differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers … appropriate their productivity gains of education through wages. On the other hand, workers with more experience are more …

entrepreneurship capital promotes economic performance by serving as a conduit of knowledge spillovers. In addition, kernel density …

productivity growth. However, this approach is based on strong assumptions about national labor markets. The author shows that when … these assumptions are relaxed, regional adjusted wage growth is a better measure of regional productivity growth than … growth to proxy for productivity growth leads to misleading results. …

potential to generate positive spillovers for local suppliers. It finds that foreign firms outperform domestic producers on … a multinational influence spillovers on suppliers. The results confirm the existence of positive effects of assistance … (including technical audits, joint product development, and technology licensing) on foreign direct investment spillovers, while …

affects the degree of vertical spillovers from foreign direct investment. Investors' country of origin may matter for … spillovers to domestic producers in upstream sectors (supplying intermediate inputs) in two ways. First, the share of … investors and thus present greater potential for vertical spillovers. The empirical analysis produces evidence in support of the …

firms. These spillovers are shown to be product and country specific. This conclusion is robust to fixed effects and … sizable. The marginal impact of product-country-specific foreign export spillovers is five times as large as the effect of a … 10 percent increase in the demand for the product in the destination country. Foreign export spillovers are also shown to …