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Incentive Pay and Performance: Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm

Bogaard, Hein; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern HRM policies in an emerging market context. We have branch-level data and use our knowledge of the process that led to the adoption of the reforms to implement two estimators...

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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …

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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country … hypothesis that spillovers are greater for FDI with more advanced technology. While efficiency of domestic firms’ is affected by … firm’s "absorptive capacity" we find: i) distance from the efficiency frontier tends to dampen horizontal spillovers in …

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Trade Liberalization in a Globalizing World

Faini, Riccardo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Globalization is not only about the rise of trade, FDI, and migration. It is also about the changing linkages among these flows. The main findings of the paper can be summarized as follows. First, at least in the nineties, import trade liberalization fostered not only trade but also inward...

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The Effects of Foreign Owned Firms on the Labor Market

Almeida, Rita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Cross sectional evidence shows that foreign firms have a more educated workforce and pay higher wages than domestic firms. These results do not necessarily imply that foreign direct investment translates into higher demand for educated workers or higher wages, however, since foreign investment...

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Cross-Border Mergers and National Champions in an Integrating Economy

Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to three different issues, (i) the level of trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent...

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Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a number of studies have documented and some attempted to explain this stylized fact, the issue...

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Exports and Productivity Growth: First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...

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Paying More to Hire the Best? Foreign Firms, Wages and Worker Mobility

Martins, Pedro S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In the context of the debate on the labour-market consequences of globalisation, we examine worker mobility in order to identify the wage differences between foreign and domestic firms. Using matched employer-employee panel data for Portugal, we consider virtually all spells of interfirm...

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Home Market Effect versus Multinationals

Toulemonde, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be...

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