Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to … sent from the foreign parent company. Moreover, the physical distance between the foreign parent company and its German … subsidiary increases the probability of focusing on short-term profit. These findings conform to the hypothesis that foreign …