the presence of foreign affiliates in Vietnamese manufacturing influences the productivity of domestic firms through … investors’ nationalities in driving different spillovers to domestic firms. The fourth chapter examines wage and employment …

, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms’ absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …

, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms' absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …

conditional on controlling for initial selection, the establishment of SEZs induced no further productivity gains for within SEZ … experienced significant productivity gains. However, SEZs created negative externalities for firms in the vicinity which attenuate …

. -- Multinationals ; backward spillovers ; productivity spillovers …We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are … conclusions regarding the existence of FDI-related spillovers. Using the standard measure employed in the literature we fail to …

. -- Multinationals ; backward spillovers ; productivity spillovers …We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are … conclusions regarding the existence of FDI-related spillovers. Using the standard measure employed in the literature we fail to …