The authors investigate how institutions affect productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to China … tax holidays to foreign direct investment. The authors also explore how productivity spillovers from FDI changed with … promotion policies. Final goods tariffs as well as input tariffs are negatively associated with firm-level productivity. However …

This paper examines the determinants of agricultural productivity and its link to poverty using nationally … representative data from the Nigeria General Household Survey Panel, 2010/11. The findings indicate an elasticity of poverty … reduction with respect to agricultural productivity of between 0.25 to 0.3 percent, implying that a 10 percent increase in …

productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed … correlation between farm productivity and neighbors' education is likely to be a spillover effect. In particular, there are no …

1/4 of the product scope expansion and 1/3 of the productivity gains within domestic firms …

level adoption of information and communications technology leads to increases in firm productivity and wages, and that the … effects are heterogeneous across firms, being larger for initially high-productivity and high-skill firms. The increase in … wages occurs even after controlling for skill composition, implying that there are productivity and rent-sharing mechanisms …

as usage by firms, innovation, and productivity using firm-level data for a sample of six Sub-Saharan African countries … countries. However, the final impact on productivity depends on the degree of novelty of the innovation introduced by the firm …

The international migration of high-skilled workers may trigger productivity effects at the macro level such that the … productivity, and the wages of skilled workers between pairs of source and destination countries. These strategies aim to address …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …