This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization under NAFTA on the productivity of the Mexican automobile …) to obtain a productivity measure. In a second stage, a model is estimated by System GMM to analyze the effect of trade … openness on the estimated productivity. The main results indicate that there exists a positive association between trade …

Technology import raises industrial competitiveness through increased productivity and efficiency of the concerned … productivity and efficiency lead to competitiveness. However, it is necessary to measure how the adoption of foreign technology … collaboration), technological backwardness is reflected in high cost of production and low productivity. This paper examines the …

Using plant-level data underlying the Census of Manufactures, total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its …

Economic theory implies that research and development (R&D) efforts increase firm productivity and ultimately profits …

. However, this use of flexibility as a competitive weapon may not be optimal, as suggested by lower plant productivity …

Many sectors of the UK economy experienced rapid productivity growth over the 1980's. This coincided with an increase … use more intermediate goods. They also pay their workers higher wages. Differences in levels of total factor productivity …

We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …