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Foreign ownership and intra-firm union density in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017
From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers’ unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124745
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Foreign ownership and intra-firm union density in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017
From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762256
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Foreign ownership and intra-firm union density in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017
From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752199
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Globalization and firm performance
Catão, Luis; Faria, Pedro de; Martins, António; … - 2023
Using a new panel dataset of about 140 thousand Portuguese firms during 2006-2019, we measure the effects of globalization on firm-level performance along four dimensions: ownership of capital, employment of foreign-seasoned managers, and participation in export and import markets. Once at least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502260
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Chinese multinationals : threat to, or opportunity for, trade unions? : the case of Sinohydro in Ghana
Williams, Glynne; Davies, Steve; Lamptey, Julius; … - 2016
MNC involvement and how should unions respond? This paper puts the experience of workers at SINOHYDRO in Ghana into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647142
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The business sector, firm age, and performance : the mediating role of foreign ownership and financial leverage
Mallinguh, Edmund; Wasike, Christopher; Zoltan, Zeman - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 8 (2020) 4/79, pp. 1-16
The paper explores the business sector and firm age effects on firm performance mediated by foreign ownership levels in domestic firms and financial leverage by examining 146 Medium Enterprises (MEs). The results show that except for ownership, the business sector, firm age, foreign ownership...
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The Effectiveness of Capital Controls and Prudential Policies in Managing Large Inflows
Habermeier, Karl Friedrich; Kokenyne, Annamaria; Baba, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and so are aimed at a broad audience...
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The end of cheap labour : are foreign investors leaving China?
Donaubauer, Julian; Dreger, Christian - 2016
paper, we raise the hypothesis that soaring wages negatively affect FDI inflows to China and alter the distribution of FDI … direction of FDI inflows. By performing panel models with spatial effects for both Chinese provinces and developing ASEAN … the distribution of FDI within China. In addition, we show that the changes in China's economic strategy improve the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517943
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Labor costs and foreign direct investment : a panel VAR approach
Sağlam, Bahar Bayraktar; Böke, Selin Sayek - In: Economies : open access journal 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-23
This paper examines the endogenous interaction between labor costs and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the OECD … findings have revealed that sectoral composition of FDI and the decomposition of labor costs play a significant role in … investigating the dynamic association between labor costs and FDI. Further, results suggest that labor market policies should focus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772343
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Which factors influence vertical intra-industry trade in India? : empirical results from panel data analysis
Aggarwal, Sakshi; Chakraborty, Debashis - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647735