This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms' productivity via human capital … due to the Republic of Korea's visa regulations. We find that the industry and regional FDI positively affect local firms …' productivity, particularly firms with higher growth in hiring skilled foreign employees. This human capital spillover from FDI is …

This paper relates to the literature on pecuniary externalities from FDI. Their transmission mechanism is complex … exploited. As a result, all the potential effects of FDI on firm productivity remain to explain. We contribute to the literature …

spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to domestic firms; a crucial aspect in countries with a widespread use of holding … testing the importance of both domestic firm characteristics and FDI characteristics. The empirical analysis is the first one … Scandinavia. -- Productivity ; spillovers ; FDI ; determinants …

direct investment (FDI) from these economies is rising faster than their economic growth, trade, and inward FDI, and the … outward FDI are generally consistent with the international investment literature. But in addition particular factors are at … challenge for the rest of the world is to accommodate these FDI flows, as part of the global reorientation of economic activity …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) projects are assumed to be accompanied by potential external effects – so-called FDI …-level panel data from ten Latin American (developing) countries in order to estimate the spillover effects from FDI on firms … a tendency that the presence of FDI in a sector (region) has a negative (positive) impact …

Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … employs detailed firm-level panel-data from Estonia's manufacturing sector to investigate different channels through which FDI … of FDI entry on local incumbents' TFP and labour productivity growth in the short term. The effect on productivity does …

This chapter examines the question if inward foreign direct investment (FDI) is still a major source of growth and …-crisis era. In other words, does FDI still follow a double track, that is, a quantitative increase coupled with structural … upgrading? Does FDI help these countries in avoiding the “middle income trap”? The chapter finds that with changes in the world …

Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … employs detailed firm-level panel-data from Estonia’s manufacturing sector to investigate different channels through which FDI … of FDI entry on local incumbents’ TFP and labour productivity growth in the short term. The effect on productivity does …