Globalization and productivity: A survey of firm-level analysis

Journal of Economic Surveys

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 332-350

  Hayakawa, Kazunobu ^a   Machikita, Tomohiro ^a   Kimura, Fukunari ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPING ECONOMIES   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Firm level data; Globalization; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GLOBALIZATION; LEARNING; POLICY ANALYSIS; PRODUCTIVITY; SURVEY;

EID: 84856762841     PISSN: 09500804     EISSN: 14676419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6419.2010.00653.x     Document Type: Article

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