Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower … costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its productivity and profits. However not all firms use … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity. Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …

or sector, it is their productivity advantage on the local firm to determine the positive effect on domestic productivity … significant and robust Veblen-Gerschenkrion effect. The initial total factor productivity advantage of MNEs on local firm acts as … a stimulus for productivity growth of local firms in the same region. …

technologies, associated with high total factor productivity and high returns to skills, are complementary to highly educated …. - Externalities ; Total Factor Productivity ; Schooling Laws ; College Graduate Immigrants ; Land Grant Colleges …

show that the main effect of migration operates through total factor productivity but not through institutional quality …