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1/4 of the product scope expansion and 1/3 of the productivity gains within domestic firms …
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following disinvestment). The paper find that spillovers have a significant transitory nature, with employment and capital …
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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 …
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The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …
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At 50.9 percent, female labor force participation in Indonesia is far below the regional average of 60.8 percent. Is it … estimate the elasticity of maternal employment to preschool access. The analysis finds that an additional public preschool per …
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employment and wages offered by Indonesian manufacturing firms from 1993 to 2006. It shows that the estimated effects of minimum … wage on employment are positive within a province (i.e., with province fixed effects), but negative within a firm (i …. It finds significant heterogeneous effects of minimum-wage changes on employment. The employment effects of minimum wages …
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Investment growth in many emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) has slowed sharply since 2010. Investment growth performance has varied significantly across different regions, however. This paper examines the temporal evolution of investment growth in six EMDE regions, documents...
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Evidence shows that foreign direct investment can provide many benefits to host countries, including productivity …
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One of the strong messages that came out of the recent United Nations Climate Change conference in Durban was that the private sector has to play an important role if we are to globally move toward a low carbon, climate resilient -- or "climate compatible" -- future. However, private investment...
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form of business tax rebates, productivity-enhancing public infrastructure or investment incentives such as tax holidays …
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