Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross …

German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …

Studies regarding the migrants' impact upon performance variables and in particular upon productivity growth - which is … industries and regions and output and productivity growth. We do obtain robust results with respect to the positive impact of the … - on the relationship between productivity growth and the shares of migrants and of high-skilled migrants in overall …

on a firm's productivity and what the consequences are for a firm's profits. …

The paper addresses the link between productivity and labour mobility. The hypothesis tested is that technology is … diffused within the new environment creating spillovers and leading to productivity improvements. The empirical analysis is … considerable beneficial effects on industry productivity. Possible endogeneity problems related to labour mobility are tackled by …

, productivity growth and capital accumulation. Moreover, there is evidence of a positive contribution to the process stemming from …

manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …