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Productivity effects of international outsourcing: Evidence from plant level data

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Strobl, Eric - 2007

We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant level data for Irish manufacturing …. Specifically, we distinguish the effect of outsourcing of materials from services inputs. Moreover, we examine whether the impact … multinational. Our results show robust evidence for positive effects from outsourcing of services inputs for exporters, either …

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Outsourcing, Foreign Ownership, Exporting and Productivity : An Empirical Investigation with Plant Level Data

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Strobl, Eric - 2005

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Outsourcing, foreign ownership, exporting and productivity: An empirical investigation with plant level data

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Strobl, Eric - 2004

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Outsourcing, foreign ownership, exporting and productivity : an empirical investigation with plant level data

Görg, Holger (contributor); Hanley, Aoife (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Foreign direct investment, agglomerations and demonstration effects: An empirical investigation

Barry, Frank; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2001

Many previous studies have shown that the localisation of firms can be an important factor in attracting new foreign direct investment into a host country. What has been missing in this literature thus far, however, is an investigation into the reasons why industry clusters attract firms. We...

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Coagglomeration and Growth

Bertinelli, Luisito; Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Strobl, Eric - 2003

We study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals and the impact of this on domestic plant growth using data for Irish manufacturing. To this end we make use of the index developed by Ellison and Glaeser (1997) and find coagglomeration to be important for a number of...

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Multinational companies and indigenous development: An empirical analysis

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2002

This Paper presents an empirical study of the effect of foreign multinational companies on the development of indigenous firms in the host country. Our starting point is a recent paper by Markusen and Venables (1999) that shows formally that multinationals, through the creation of linkages with...

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Foreign direct investment, agglomerations and demonstration effects: An empirical investigation

Barry, Frank; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2001

Many previous studies have shown that the localization of firms can be an important factor in attracting new foreign direct investment into a host country. What has been missing in this literature thus far, however, is an investigation into the reasons why industry clusters attract firms. We...

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Multinational enterprises and new trade theory: Evidence for the convergence hypothesis

Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2001

According to the ‘convergence hypothesis’, multinational companies will tend to displace national firms and trade as total market size increases and as countries converge in relative size, factor endowments, and production costs. Using a recent model developed by Markusen and Venables (1998)...

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Why do foreign-owned firms pay more? The role of on-the-job training

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2007

While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers, the causes of this remain unresolved. In a two-period bargaining framework we show that if training is more productive and specific in foreign firms,...

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