This paper examines how foreign plants may impact on the averages wages paid by domestic plants within a host economy. The analysis, building on Aitken, Harrison and Lipsey (1996), is based on plant level panel data for the Irish manufacturing industry during the 1990s. We find that respective...

This paper examines possible productivity spillovers from foreign-owned firms to indigenous firms in the manufacturing sector in Ireland, using a firm-level panel of all firms in the Irish manufacturing sector over the period 1991-1998. The approach commonly applied in the literature to examine...

Overall labour productivity in the Irish manufacturing sector increased by 158 per cent between 1991 and 1999. This paper examines the components of this labour productivity growth in the period 1991-1999, using a decomposition analysis based on plant level data. In order to account for the...

This paper examines how foreign plants may impact on the averages wages paid by domestic plants within a host economy. The analysis, building on Aitken, Harrison and Lipsey (1996), is based on plant level panel data for the Irish manufacturing industry during the 1990s. We find that respective...

There is increasing growth in export platform foreign direct investment (EPFDI), reflecting both the international fragmentation of production associated with globalization and the adoption of policies to promote this type of investment as part of economies' "export led growth" strategies. This...

Overall labor productivity in the Irish manufacturing sector increased by 158 percent between 1991 and 1999. This growth in labor productivity coincided with strong growth in employment during the same period, in stark contrast to the experience of other European countries. This paper examines...