Countries with the highest labor productivity overwhelmingly lie in the world's temperate climatic zones far away from … correlated with labor productivity after other variables are taken into account. We find that climatic conditions do not have a … significant impact on labor productivity once we control for factor accumulation and cultural diversity within countries. Our …

Abstract: This paper investigates the productivity effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment using … the host country. Our results show that there are, on average, productivity benefits from inward FDI, although we can … identify a number of countries which, on aggregate, do not appear to benefit in terms of productivity. On the other hand, a …

productivity and input demand, I try to distinguish empirically between theoretical explanations. For this exercise a large panel … supplier industries seems to be positive. Productivity change appears to be an important determinant of markup change, but … foreign presence remains significant even after controlling for productivity change. …

This paper estimates the productivity of government and private employment, and government and private capital for a …

normative effects of offshoring: trade in tasks increases productivity of active firms and improves welfare in the offshoring …

"residual productivity". Throughout the questionnaire I built six governance indexes. Then I tested the impact of the governance … indexes on the productivity of firms. I observed that the economic performance of the eastern regions of Poland, where …

We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a … negatively affected productivity. This spillover has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a dynamic … stochastic general equilibrium model, the disappearance of this energy-productivity spillover generates the significantly lower …