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Schlicht, Ekkehart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Recent thinking has emphasized the importance of consistency in a firm’s compensation policy. By starting from Williamson’s ideas about idiosyncratic exchange, this view can be supplied with some theoretical foundation. At the same time, the consistency view can be applied to a number of...

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Blessing or Curse? Domestic Plants' Survival and Employment Prospects after Foreign Acquisitions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner has any effects on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The analysis uses plant level data for the UK electronics and food industries for the period 1980 to 1993. We control for...

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Productivity and International Firm Activities: What Do We Know?

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper summarizes in a non-technical way what we know from empirical studies based on firm-level data about the mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in an evidence-based way. A special focus is on the...

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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

conclusions regarding the existence of FDI-related spillovers. Using the standard measure employed in the literature we fail to … linkages that relax assumptions (i)-(iii), we find robust evidence for positive FDI backward spillover effects. …

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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …

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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 …

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Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Wage Inequality? An Empirical Investigation

Figini, Paolo; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

foreign direct investment (FDI) and wage inequality. We particularly check whether this relationship is non-linear, in line … with a theoretical discussion. We find that the effect of FDI differs according to the level of development: we depict two … linear effect in developing countries; wage inequality increases with FDI inward stock but this effect diminishes with …

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Domestic Multinationals, Foreign Affiliates, and Labour Demand Elasticities

Godart, Olivier; Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...

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Wages and International Rent Sharing in Multinational Firms

Budd, John W.; Konings, Jozef; Slaughter, Matthew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond...

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