and purely domestic firms. Although productivity and profitability initially rise with foreign ownership, they start …

for plant size and productivity, we find that foreign plants are significantly more likely to close than comparable …

Using data from a survey conducted by the World Bank in China, this paper shows that foreign ownership enhances firm … productivity. We also find that only equity ownership from foreign firms can have such a positive impact, but not ownership from … channels through which foreign ownership exerts a positive impact on firm productivity …

total factor productivity (TFP) for the Slovenian manufacturing sector in the 1994-2003 period. The theoretically predicted … foreign firm’s entry. Thirdly, regarding the productivity spillover effects from foreign to local firms we provide indirect …

supplying industries. Regarding the productivity spillover effects from foreign to local firms the results suggest that they …

's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …