experts may impact on the productivity and wages of domestic firms. Using matched worker-firm data from Denmark and a …

We investigate the export-enhancing effect of foreign workers at the firm level. We first develop a theoretical … framework of heterogeneous firms, assuming that foreign workers allow for productivity gains and convey valuable information on … which only foreign workers who were born in the export destination contribute. We test these theoretical predictions using …

missed. Looking at the relationship between FDI growth on one hand and labour productivity, capital productivity and …

simultaneity bias in productivity estimates through semi-parametric techniques, we find that changes in domestic firms’ TFP are …

plants exist. The results indicate that divestment is associated with a drop in total factor productivity accompanied by a … dec line in output, markups as well as export and import intensity. The findings are consistent with the benefits of …

's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …

This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms’ absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …