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Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...

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Multinational Companies, Backward Linkages and Labour Demand Elasticities

Görg, Holger; Henry, Michael; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals becomes less elastic with respect to the wage if the plant has backward linkages with the local...

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Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Note on Employment Protection, Domestic Anchorage, and FDI

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Montagna, Catia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper examines how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinationals. Based on a simple theoretical framework, we estimate an empirical model, using OECD-data on bilateral FDI-flows and employment protection indices. We find that, while an "unfavourable"...

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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes

Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm’s headquarter decides on the …

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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany

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 focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not sent from the foreign parent company. Moreover, the...

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Does Human Capital Endowment of FDI Recipient Countries Really Matter? Evidence from Cross-Country Firm Level Data

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The stylized literature on foreign direct investment suggests that developing countries should invest in the human capital of their labour force in order to attract foreign direct investment. However, if educational quality in developing country is uncertain such that formal education is a noisy...

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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

offshoring involves job destruction, especially when the destination is a low-wage country. In such circumstances, staying … negative. Our evidence also shows that offshoring to high-wage countries stimulates the vertical mobility of employees in …

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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring: The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity

Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities …, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in … externalities can help explain the dynamic process of offshoring, where the most productive firms offshore first and the others …

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Offshoring and Firm Performance: Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation of activities to a foreign country on various dimensions of firm …). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and … relocate, and this points to self-selection of "better" firms into offshoring. This finding is in line with results from recent …

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