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Relocation, offshoring and labour market repercussions : the case of the German automobile industry in Central Europe
Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
foreign direct investment in Central Europe may have helped the relatively favourable employment and earnings record of the … production. Employment and wages diverged considerably within the German automobile industry. Relative to skilled workers, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956002
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Globalisierung der Automobilindustrie: Neue Standorte auf dem Vormarsch, traditionelle Anbieter unter Druck?
Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000
Automobilindustrie, um die These zu überprüfen, dass es selbst bei der Herstellung relativ wissens- und technologieintensiver Güter zu …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755278
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Minimum quality standards and novelty requirements in a one-shot development race
Prokop, Jacek; Regibeau, Pierre; Rockett, Katharine - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
The authors examine the timing and quality of product introduction in an R&D stopping game, where they allow for horizontal and vertical differentiation in the product market. They observe that discontinuous changes in introduction dates can occur as firms' abilities as researchers change....
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Emerging multinationals, international knowledge flows and economic geography: a research agenda
Dohse, Dirk Christian; Hassink, Robert; Klaerding, Claudia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
One of the most significant changes in the global economy today is the strong increase in outgoing foreign direct investment (OFDI) from emerging economies to industrialised countries. Whereas investment in less developed countries is often motivated by the sourcing of natural resources and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886894
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Knowledge Transfer in Global Supply Chains: Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa
QU, Zhan; Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
We analyze in this paper determinants of voluntary knowledge transfer from foreign investors to their local suppliers in 19 Sub- Saharan African countries using data from the 2010 Africa Investor Survey by UNIDO. We argue that not all backward linkages entail the same potential for spillovers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208174
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Headquarter services, skill intensity and labour demand elasticities in multinational firms
Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to own labour costs changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in wage elasticity of labour demand persists...
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Determinants of growth and convergence in a growing economy with heterogeneous entrepreneurs
Dohse, Dirk; Ott, Ingrid - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
We develop an endogenous growth model which is focussed on entrepreneurial skills and their impact on growth and convergence. Our work is closely related to the model by Acemoglu et al. (2006) but extends their analysis in some important respects. Entrepreneurs in our model dispose of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755150
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Intra-Firm Trade and Employment in US Manufacturing
Blanas, Sotiris - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886831
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FDI in Mexico: An Empirical Assessment of Employment Effects
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Bremont, José Eduardo Alatorre - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
We raise the question whether foreign direct investment (FDI) has contributed to employment generation in Mexico and … employment data covering almost 200 manufacturing industries. We estimate dynamic labor demand functions for blue and white … FDI has a significantly positive, though quantitatively modest impact on manufacturing employment in Mexico. Moreover, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700632
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two … important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We …) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality and (c) are self-financing. This criterion enables us to …
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