Previous empirical evidence searching for externalities from Foreign Direct investment in Portugal showed mixed results. Using a new database containing 5,045 Portuguese manufacturing firms grouped by technological trajectories, we investigate the occurrence and magnitude of externalities from...

The 1990s have cetainly been very progressive for Estonia that is now a member of the European Union and NATO, and rather successful for many of its active citizens. At the same time, in todays Estonia it is increasingly difficult for an entrepreneur to find qualified labour force and to remain...

This paper empirically investigates how the inter-sectoral knowledge flows affect the international competitiveness of industries, once controlling for both cost and other technological factors. Using patent data on 14 manufacturing industries in 16 OECD countries over the period 1995-2009, we...

Die Globalisierung ist eine zentrale Herausforderung für Industrieländer wie Deutschland, und multinationale Unternehmen sind ihre wichtigsten Treiber. In diesem Beitrag wird die Internationalisierung der deutschen Industrieunternehmen ab 1995 untersucht und mit der in Unternehmen aus den USA,...

Previous empirical evidence searching for externalities from Foreign Direct investment in Portugal showed mixed results. Using a new database containing 5,045 Portuguese manufacturing firms grouped by technological trajectories, we investigate the occurrence and magnitude of externalities from...

Indi's stagnating manufacturing sector has become a serious cause of concern for Indian policy makers. Several reasons have been identified for this slowdown, including lack of policy focus, unsupportive external environment, etc. Given the importance of the manufacturing sector and its...

This chapter presents the major results of a comparative study of productivity growth in manufacturing in Japan and the United States conducted by the authors at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Japan was chosen for the comparison because the growth of productivity there has been extraordinary...

This paper analyzes multifactor productivity growth (based on capital, labor, energy, and materials) and labor productivity growth in the Japanese and U.S. manufacturing sectors. We find that the tests of separability required for a value-added approach fail for both the U.S. and Japan, making...

We estimate the rate of embodied technological change directly from plant-level manufacturing data on current output and input choices along with histories on their vintages of equipment investment. Our estimates range between 8 and 17 percent for the typical U.S. manufacturing plant during the...