We estimate the determinants of labor productivity growth in 8 new European Union (EU) member states that joined the … Union in 2004. Our focus is on the impact of globalization and EU integration efforts on labor productivity growth. Previous … labor productivity growth. Using panel data for 1995-2006 period, we find that globalization has mixed effects. FDI and …

goods trade. This paper contributes to the discussion about the trade in intermediate goods and productivity by revisiting … business cycles and productivity and welfare at the current stage of Korean development. The major revision of the Basu (1995 … investigate the effects of misallocation and multiplier effects due to intermediate goods on industrial productivity and …

Measures of institutional quality are strong predictors of cross-country differences in income and productivity. The …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

Raising the productivity content of exports is an important issue for developing and emerging countries. What role do … generalizing the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the host country's export productivity level. Using panel data, we … present new empirical evidence suggesting that FDI boosts the overall productivity level of the developing and emerging …

This paper revisits the so-called ‘ICT-productivity paradox' from a long-run perspective by using annual Australian … data for about five decades. It provides estimates of long-run and short-run elasticities of labour productivity with … respect to ICT capital deepening, explores the nature of long-run causality among productivity growth and ICT and non …