For a representative sample of manufacturing firms in 26 countries, this paper shows that changes in the cost of … are of foreign origin. Furthermore, the paper shows that there may be a nonlinear relationship between import costs and …

While existing evidence in advanced economies suggests a possible role for technological innovation in job creation … technological as well as organizational innovation on firm level employment growth based on the theoretical model of Harrison … a positive direct role of innovation on the quantity of employment but at a decreasing rate as firms' transition to the …

Using a cross-section of more than 25,000 domestic manufacturing firms in 78 low and middle-income countries from the … World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper assesses how mediating factors influence intra-industry productivity spillovers …

This paper describes and benchmarks innovation activities for a sample of countries in the South Asia region, as well … Asia region can be divided into two groups, in terms of the magnitude and composition of the innovation activities: leaders … (Bangladesh and India) and laggards (Nepal and Pakistan). Leaders present higher rates of innovation activities than laggards and …

While innovation is a source of competitiveness, it may expose plants to survival risks. Using a rich set of plant …-product data for Chilean manufacturing plants during the period 1996-2006 and discrete-time hazard models controlling for … important role for the innovation-survival link: only innovators that retain diversified sources of revenues survive longer …

This paper decomposes manufacturing import growth rates in a selected set of large industrial and developing countries … of the world and from developing countries for aggregate and three-digit manufacturing sectors. Import growth is much …

associated with Suharto's fall had a modest pro-competitive effect on Indonesian manufacturing industries in which his family had …