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FDI and Job Creation in China
Karlsson, Sune; Lundin, Nannan; Sjöholm, Fredrik; He, Ping - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
the period 1998-2004. Our results show that FDI has positive effects on employment growth. The positive effect of job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645395
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Foreign Ownership and Employment Growth in Indonesian Manufacturing
Sjöholm, Fredrik; Lipsey, Robert E.; Sun, Jing - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations. We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565792
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Cross-Border Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Elasticities
Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
affect the volatility of employment, or rather, the wage elasticity of labor demand. We analyze whether the wage elasticity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207058
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Multinational Firms and Job Tasks
Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
We use Swedish matched employer-employee data to analyze the impact of multinational activity and foreign acquisitions on the relative demand for different job tasks. We contribute to the literature by using a conceptualization from the recent literature in international economics and define the...
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