This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms' productivity via human capital …' productivity, particularly firms with higher growth in hiring skilled foreign employees. This human capital spillover from FDI is …

total factor productivity, we also find that highly productive firms self-select into the export market. The implication for …

unit labor costs - average wages relative to productivity - for two-digit manufacturing sectors across a wide range of … developed and developing countries over the 1990-2015 period. We benchmark the unit labor costs to China and estimate the impact …. Further, we find that for Africa, the level and growth of labor productivity have a quantitatively stronger and more robust …

the productivity of foreign subsidiaries of U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs). Proponents of the TCJA argue it … informs this debate by providing empirical evidence on the TCJA’s effect on foreign investment and productivity. Using a … associated with subsidiary-level productivity, suggesting that the TCJA alleviates inefficiencies of the previous tax regime …

on productivity-enhancing tools in addition to price hindering tools. …

We examine the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms’ productivity via human capital transfer from … local firms’ productivity, particularly firms with higher growth in hiring skilled foreign employees. This human capital …