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Fancy a Stay at the "Hotel California"? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs

Goerg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper looks at the trade off between investment incentives and exit costs for the location of foreign direct investment (FDI). This issue does not appear to have been tackled in much detail in the literature. The analysis considers the effect of profit taxation (as a measure of investment...

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Suppliers of Multinationals and the Forced Linkage Effect: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Godart, Olivier; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Using information on more than 1000 firms in a number of emerging countries, we find quantitative evidence that suppliers of multinationals that are pressured by their customers to reduce production costs or develop new products have higher productivity growth than other firms, including other...

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Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies

Pflüger, Michael P.; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

the government incentive to impact on entry costs, and how entry subsidies can be used strategically in open economies. We … the monopoly pricing distortion. In the autarky equilibrium these subsidies trigger entry, but they eventually do not lead … to more but to better firms in the market. In the open economy there is another, strategic motive for entry subsidies as …

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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany

Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not sent from the foreign parent company. Moreover, the...

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Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Does Human Capital Endowment of FDI Recipient Countries Really Matter? Evidence from Cross-Country Firm Level Data

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The stylized literature on foreign direct investment suggests that developing countries should invest in the human capital of their labour force in order to attract foreign direct investment. However, if educational quality in developing country is uncertain such that formal education is a noisy...

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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap

Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status. In particular, the conventional...

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The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction: An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries

Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas; Altmann, Jörn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of individual and groups of countries and to analyze...

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14,586 enterprises in the Netherlands over the period...

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