ABSTRACT

This book examines driving factors and the effects of globalisation on economic development through firm and product-level data.

The book is organised into four themes, i.e., productivity, innovation, wage and income gap, and within-firm reallocation of resources. The comprehensiveness and richness of firm and product-level data shed light upon the channels through which trade and investment affect firms’ competitiveness and unveil factors shaping firms’ heterogeneous responses towards globalisation. The book looks at Asian economies as well as Australia and how they have experienced substantial structural change and become more integrated into the global economy and will be a useful reference for those who are interested in learning more about the relationship between globalisation and firm performance.

This book will appeal to policy makers and researchers interested in the impact of globalisation on firm performance.

chapter 4|19 pages

FDI forward linkage effect and local input procurement

Evidence from Indonesian manufacturing

chapter 5|12 pages

Exporting, productivity, innovation and organization

Evidence from Malaysian manufacturing

chapter 6|20 pages

Trade liberalization and the wage skill premium in Korean manufacturing plants

Do plants’ R&D and investment matter?

chapter 7|21 pages

Trade, technology, foreign firms, and the wage gap

Case of Vietnam manufacturing firms

chapter 8|35 pages

Does real exchange rate depreciation increase productivity?

Analysis using Korean firm-level data

chapter 9|19 pages

Worker training, firm productivity, and trade liberalization

Evidence from Chinese firms

chapter 10|26 pages

Trade protection and firm productivity

Evidence from Thai manufacturing

chapter 14|17 pages

The exchange rate and exporting

Evidence from the Indonesian manufacturing sector