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Donations by migrants to community projects in their home countries (“collective remittances”) help to provide local public goods and may promote economic development. We draw on the literatures on migrant remittances and on philanthropy in general to identify possible motives for collective...
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empirically. More specifically, we use state-level German data to answer the question whether and how migration and FDI decisions … and thus integration of labor and capital markets are linked. Our findings suggest that FDI and migration have similar …
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exemplify possible applications related to trade and FDI. By overcoming several data limitations, our new global index can help …
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We analyze whether foreign direct investment (FDI) has contributed to the typically wide income gaps in five Latin … FDI stocks on income inequality among households in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay. The panel cointegration … analysis reveals a significant and positive effect on income inequality. Furthermore, FDI contributed to widening income gaps …
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This paper examines the long-run effect of FDI on health in developed countries. Using panel cointegration techniques …
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This study employs state-level panel data to explore the relationship between inward foreign direct investment (FDI …-sectional heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence, and endogenous regressors, we find that the short-run effects of FDI on income inequality … are insignificant or weakly significant and negative. In the long run, however, FDI exerts a significant and robust …
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reductions from FDI inflows, which is consistent with the hypothesis of energy saving technology transfer via FDI. However, such … apply panel estimation techniques and tests. The results do not confirm the hypothesis that FDI inflows reduce energy … intensities of developing countries in general. Interactions of FDI with country-specific characteristics do not show significant …
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order to improve their chances in the worldwide competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). However, the effectiveness … of BITs in inducing higher FDI inflows is still open to debate. It is in several ways that we attempt to clarify the … extensive dataset on bilateral FDI flows. Furthermore, we account for unilateral FDI liberalization, in order not to …
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This paper uses dynamic panel data methods to examine the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Central … role in determining the flows of FDI into the CEECs and help explain the di®erent attractiveness for FDI of the individual …
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This paper examines the effects of inward and outward FDI on income inequality in Europe using panel cointegration … techniques and unbalanced panel regressions. Our main result is that both inward FDI and outward FDI have, on average, a negative …, different measures of FDI and inequality, and period and sample selection. Other findings are: (i) While the long-run effect of …
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