Ha, Van Thi CamHolmes, MarkDoan, TinhHassan, Gazi2020-10-071573-9414http://hdl.handle.net/1885/212362We provide new insights into the relationship between foreign investment and the labour productivity of domestic firms in the Vietnamese manufacturing industry. Using quantile regression analysis of a panel of firm-level data over a 2010-2015 study period, we find that the presence of foreign investment has a positive impact on domestic firm labour productivity through competition effects within the industry at the middle and high quantiles. We do not find significant evidence to support a positive relationship between foreign investment in downstream sectors and domestic firm labour productivity in upstream sectors, however. There are some indications that suggest a positive relationship between foreign suppliers in upstream sectors and labour productivity of domestic buyers in downstream sectors at the low and middle quantiles.application/pdfen-AU© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019201910.1007/s10644-019-09251-x2020-07-05