This paper investigates the productivity effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment using industry and … country. Our results show that there are, on average, productivity benefits from inward FDI, although we can identify a number … of countries which, on aggregate, do not appear to benefit in terms of productivity. On the other hand, a country's stock …

This study examines the export-led growth hypothesis using annual time series data from Chile in a production function … of manufactured and mining exports on productivity growth. In order to investigate if and how manufactured and mining … exports affect economic growth via increases in productivity, the study uses Johansen cointegration technique. The estimation …

This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross …-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a difference …-in-differences framework, which exploits likely differences in the productivity effect of dismissal regulations in different industries. Our …

firm-level productivity paths differ between firms with varying degrees of exposure to international trade in India, the … productivity and a proxy for labor productivity, we find significant ex-ante differences in productivity between exporters and non …-exporters and no difference in the ex-post productivity gains. These findings suggest that even in a large emerging economy with …

demographics and the productivity of those who will still be active during the up-coming period of demographic ageing. As … productivity is difficult to investigate at a micro level, the paper builds on a large macro-data panel covering developed as well … output per worker as well as on total factor productivity (TFP). The results confirm earlier findings by Feyrer (2007 …

This paper challenges the common view that exports generally contribute more to GDP growth than a mere change in export … volume, as the export-led growth hypothesis predicts. Applying heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques to a production … function model with non-export GDP as the dependent variable, we find for a sample of 45 developing countries that: (i) exports …