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Firms and industries in evolutionary economics: Lessons from Marshall, Young, Steindl and Penrose
Bloch, Harry - 2007
Evolutionary economists have tended to assess firms and industries separately, neglecting the role of their interaction … in the process of economic growth and development. We trace the separation of firms and industries to Marshall, whose … industries. Penrose avoids the industry concept by focussing on heterogeneous firms, while Young and Steindl develop mundane …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434930
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Foreign direct investment, competition and industry performance
Bitzer, Jürgen; Görg, Holger - 2008
This paper investigates the productivity effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment using industry and country level data for 17 OECD countries over the period 1973 to 2001. Controlling for national and international knowledge spillovers we argue that effects of FDI work through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272969
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Offshoring, wages and job security of temporary workers
Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - 2012
effects on either wages or employment probabilities in manufacturing. In the service industries, workers are affected in terms … of employment probabilities from offshoring of services inputs only, although, in contrast to manufacturing industries …
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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth
Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009
This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...
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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth
Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848527
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Multinationals as stabilizers? : economic crisis and plant employment growth
Álvarez, Roberto (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003428449
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
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The speed and stability of price adjustment in Australian manufacturing
Bloch, Harry (contributor); Olive, Michael (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003384988
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Multinationals as stabilizers? : Economic crisis and plant employment growth
Álvarez, Roberto (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2007
This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003540699
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Foreign acquisitions, plant survival, and employment growth
Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874985