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Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment?
Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of spillover benefits to augment the primary benefits of a boost to national income from new investment. This paper begins by reviewing possible sources of FDI induced spillovers....
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Spillovers From Foreign Firms Through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
the literature. Our results suggest that firms which are run by owners that worked for multinationals in the same industry … firm. We do not find any positive effects on firm level productivity if the owner had experience in multinationals in other … industries, or received training by multinationals. …
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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments
Palokangas, Tapio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour …
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Spillovers Through Backward Linkages from Multinationals: Measurement Matters!
Barrios, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, namely that (i) multinationals use domestically … produced inputs in the same proportion as imported inputs, (ii) multinationals have the same input sourcing behaviour as … domestic firms, irrespective of their country of origin, and (iii) the demand for locally produced inputs by multinationals is …
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Evaluating the Causal Effects of Foreign Acquisition on Domestic Skilled and Unskilled Wages
Girma, Sourafel; Goerg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper investigates the effects of the takeover of a domestic establishment by foreign owners on the domestic target’s development of wages for skilled and unskilled workers. We pay particular attention to identifying the causal effect, using a propensity score matching approach combined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566820
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The Linkages between FDI and Domestic Investment: Unravelling the Developmental Impact of Foreign Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ndikumana, Leonce; Verick, Sher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome development, the question remains as to the impact of these resource inflows on economic development. This study posits that a key channel of the impact of FDI on development is through its effects on...
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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Becker, Sascha O. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...
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Wage Inequality, Linkages and FDI
Driffield, Nigel; Girma, Sourafel; Henry, Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper extends the existing literature on FDI and wage inequality. We do this in two ways. Firstly, we incorporate more precise measures of inward investment into the model, by allowing for differences in the effects between horizontal and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the...
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Multinationals and Plant Exit: Evidence from Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
questions: are affiliates of foreign multinationals more likely to exit than domestic firms? Does the exit probability of … multinationals depend on its export orientation?, and Does the presence of multinationals affect the survival of other firms in the … that only domestic market oriented multinationals responded to this negative shock by being more "footloose"; this is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703781
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Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Sectoral and Macroeconomic Perspectives for Germany, the EU and the US
Irawan, Tony; Welfens, Paul J. J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which could bring a considerable increase of exports and output as well as changes in the composition of output and employment. Thus export simulation studies in combination with...
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