I adopt the distribution dynamics framework to study labor productivity convergence, in the period 1980-1995, among 28 …

I estimate establishment level total factor productivity (TFP) convergence using panel data from India's manufacturing … sector from 2001-2015. I examine the presence of foreign owned establishments within each industry's productivity frontier …, and allow for the speed of productivity convergence to differ based on the ownership composition of the frontier. While I …

effect of R&D offshoring on industrial productivity in the home country using industry-level data for 18 OECD countries over … a 26-year period. Simultaneity between productivity and R&D offshoring is addressed by using foreign tax policy as an … instrument for offshored R&D. We show that R&D offshoring contributes positively to productivity in the home country …

R&D output to capture the contribution of R&D (direct and spilled-over) to regional productivity at the industry level …. The results suggest that interregional knowledge spillovers and their productivity effects are to a substantial degree …) produce interregional knowledge spillovers that have positive and highly significant productivity effects. The study, moreover …

This paper examines labour productivity convergence tendencies, among 28 developed and developing countries, in … only on large production capacity, cheap labour and abundant natural resources. -- Labour productivity convergence …