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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg. C. - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2010

How many \"American jobs\" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...

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Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2010

In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in or-der to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and so by increase their interaction...

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FDI and Growth: What Cross-Country Industry Data Say

Cipollina, Maria; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Pietrovito, Filomena - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

The theoretical literature has discussed different channels through which foreign direct investments (FDI) promote host country’s economic growth, but empirical analyses have so far been inconclusive. In this paper we provide evidence that FDI have a positive and statistically significant...

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R&D Offshoring and the Productivity Growth of European Regions

Castellani, Davide; Pieri, Fabio - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012

The recent increase in R&D offshoring have raised fears that knowledge and competitiveness in advanced countries may be …

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Were Multinational Banks Taking Excessive Risks Before the Recent Financial Crisis?

Gulamhussen, Mohamed Azzim; Pinheiro, Carlos; Pozzolo, … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012

The recent financial crisis has clearly shown that the relationship between bank internationalization and risk is … grounded on solid theoretical arguments, the answer of what is the actual relationship between bank internationalization and … balance-sheet-based and backward-looking measure – and relate them to their degree of internationalization. We find robust …

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Internationalization choices: an ordered probit analysis at industry-level

Pietrovito, Filomena; Pozzolo, Alberto Franco; … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2013

Trade theory traces back different patterns of internationalization to heterogeneity between firms, measured both … and internationalization choices, namely trade and foreign di-rect investments (FDI) for a large sample of countries and … of firms by size in explaining differences across sectors and countries in the extensive margin of internatio-nalization …

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Crossing Industrial Borders: German Manufacturers as Services Exporters

Kelle, Markus - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012

also important to transfer knowledge between unaffiliated firms at different stages of the value chain. …

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Brain Drain with FDI Gain? Factor Mobility between Eastern and Western Europe

Simone, Gianfranco De; Manchin, Miriam - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

A growing strand of literature highlights that skilled migration may favour growth-enhancing technology transfer, trade and foreign direct investments between the source and the host economies of migrants (network effects). We explore a specific channel through which the possible \"diaspora...

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The competitive repositioning of automotive firms in Turin: innovation, internationalisation and the role of ICT

CASTELLI, Cristina; FLORIO, Massimo; GIUNTA, Anna - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

Following the increasing competitive pressure and the emergence of new industrial poles within the auto industry, Italian firms have been the protagonists of an intense reorganisation, which is still ongoing. This case-study involves 13 supplier firms, operating in the automotive industry,...

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The internationalisation of the automotive supply chain: empirical evidence from Italian firms

BACCHIOCCHI, Emanuele; FLORIO, Massimo; GIUNTA, Anna - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

The aim of this paper is to study the characteristics of the internationalisation process and to identify its determinants in a representative sample of 786 firms in the Italian automotive chain. We carried out a a multinomial logit and an ordered probit analyses. The main findings of the...

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