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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
not suffice that incentives are provided in order to ease the entry of multinationals. Instead, it also appears to be … important that exit costs are at a level attractive to multinationals. In other words, multinationals may not check into an …
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Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies: An Empirical Analysis
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric Albert; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant level data for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete grant history. We provide evidence that additional employment is created over and above the level...
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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
productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …
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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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Patriotism, Taxation and International Mobility
Qari, Salmai; Konrad, Kai A.; Geys, Benny - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
For patriotic citizens, living in their native country is intrinsically preferable compared to living in the diaspora. In this paper, we analyze the implications of such a patriotic lock-in in a world with international migration and redistributive taxation. In a formal model of redistribution...
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Cross-Border Health and Productivity Effects of Alcohol Policies
Johansson, Per; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Verho, Jouko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper studies the cross-border health and productivity effects of alcohol taxes. We estimate the effect of a large cut in the Finnish alcohol tax on mortality, alcohol related illnesses and work absenteeism in Sweden. This tax cut led to large differences in the prices of alcoholic...
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What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries
Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Considerable evidence suggests that enforcement efforts cannot fully explain the high degree of tax compliance. To resolve this puzzle of tax compliance several researchers have argued that citizens’ attitudes toward paying taxes defined as tax morale helps to explain the high degree of tax...
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Diploma No Problem: Can Private Schools Be of Lower Quality than Public Schools?
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private schools can provide lower quality than public schools. Using a stylized model of the education market with sequential entry of a public and a private school, we show that, depending on the underlying...
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Why Is the Timing of School Tracking So Heterogeneous?
Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Secondary schools in the developed world differ in the degree of differentiation and in the first age of selection of pupils into different tracks. In this paper, we account for the heterogeneity of tracking time with a simple stochastic model which conjugates the returns from specialization...
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