and wages in Vietnamese manufacturing? Second, what determines productivity in Vietnamese manufacturing: the roles of … technology and institutions? Third, what are the constraints of the investment climate on Vietnamese manufacturing technical …

This study decomposes the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into a technology and a scale effect and … changes in technical efficiency and not in scale and that the preacquisition productivity of the target plays a role in … mediating the rate of technology transfer from the multinational …

rate of technology transfer from the MNE parent companies, (iii) the productivity growth effects are not confined to the …The first aim of this paper is to decompose the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into two components …: the technology and scale effect. The second aim is to analyse the causal relationship between foreign ownership and these …

's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …

exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also …