This book examines driving factors and the effects of globalisation on economic development through firm and product level data. It is organised into four themes i.e. productivity, innovation, wage and income gap, and within-firm reallocation of resources.

1 Introduction 1CHIN HEE HAHN, DIONISIUS NARJOKO, HA THI THANH DOAN AND SHUJ IRO UR ATA2 The link between innovation and export performance of Australian SMEs 10ALFONS PALANGKAR AYA3 Trade reforms, competition, and innovation in the Philippines 34R AFAELITA M. ALDABA4 FDI forward linkage effect and local input procurement: evidence from Indonesian manufacturing 62SADAYUKI TAKI I AND DIONISIUS NARJOKO5 Exporting, productivity, innovation and organization: evidence from Malaysian manufacturing 81CASSEY LEE6 Trade liberalization and the wage skill premium in Korean manufacturing plants: do plants’ R&D and investment matter? 93CHIN HEE HAHN AND YONG-SEOK CHOI7 Trade, technology, foreign firms, and the wage gap: case of Vietnam manufacturing firms 113SHANDRE MUGAN THANGAVELU8 Does real exchange rate depreciation increase productivity?: analysis using Korean firm-level data 134BO-YOUNG CHOI AND JU HYUN PYUN9 Worker training, firm productivity, and trade liberalization: evidence from Chinese firms 169QING LIU, LARRY D. QIU AND MIAOJ IE YU10 Trade protection and firm productivity: evidence from Thai manufacturing 188JUTHATHI P JONGWANICH AND ARCHANUN KOHPAIBOON11 Overseas expansion and domestic businessrestructuring in Japanese firms 214KEIKO ITO AND KENTA IKEUCHI12 The impacts of import tariff reduction on income growth and distribution in urban China 241MI DAI AND Y IFAN ZHANG13 Overseas production expansion and domestic transaction networks 263K AZUNOBU HAYAK AWA AND TOSHIYUKI MATSUUR A14 The exchange rate and exporting: evidence from the Indonesian manufacturing sector 282CHANDR A TRI PUTR A AND DIONISIUS NARJOKO