. -- R&D Capital Stocks ; Multifactor Productivity ; Heterogeneity ; Panel Cointegration ; Bootstrap Simulations …We examine the robustness of R&D and productivity relationship in a panel of 16 OECD countries. We control for fifteen … productivity determinants predicted by different theoretical models. Following the advances in non-stationary panel data …

stocks on domestic output and productivity for a panel of 10 OECD countries. This letter updates the work of, among others …

only little known about productivity variations between foreign affiliates of multinational firms. In order to enhance the … understanding of the economic causes of this heterogeneity we analyze the impact of various institutional and economic … characteristics of the countries in which the multinational parent companies are located on the productivity of their affiliates …

general pattern of productivity growth and industrial development. This paper surveys the literature on services trade …

productivity growth in semi-industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to operate through the negative impact of firm … raise productivity in defense of profits, contributing to a low wage-low productivity trap. This paper presents empirical … link between increased firm mobility and lower wages, as well as slower productivity growth over the period 1970 …

develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an empirical application using productivity data for … productivity growth. As the knowledge transferred through business visits is non-rival, both countries of origin and destination …. -- International labour movements ; face-to-face meetings ; business trips ; growth ; productivity …

changes in the level of foreign control upon labour productivity in domestically-controlled plants. We distinguish between … use of intermediate inputs. We find that foreign control increases productivity growth in domestically-controlled plants … positive productivity effects of foreign control are more pronounced for those plants that outsource more intermediates, and …

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000 … has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 11 percent of productivity growth … during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller …