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We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals with that in Swedish firms. U.S. multinationals appear to have allocated some of their more labor intensive operations selling in world markets to affiliates in developing...
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investment and production. We hypothesize that financial strength generates advantages that can be exploited through cross …-border investment activity. The hypothesis is tested in a series of binary-response models, using a sample of 1379 European non …-border investment. We conclude that without explicit consideration of the financial dimension, firms’ FDI decisions cannot be properly …
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We argue that mainstream FDI theory underplays financial motivations for interna-tional investment, and suggest several …
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This study tests whether individuals who grow up with parents on welfare benefits are themselves more (or less) likely to be welfare recipients as young adults, compared to individuals who grow up in non-welfare households. We use the sibling difference method to identify causal effects...
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The role of school principals largely resembles that of corporate managers and the leadership they provide are often viewed as a crucial component for educational success. We estimate the impact of individual principals on various schooling outcomes, by constructing a principal-school panel data...
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Inherited wealth has attracted much attention recently, much due to the research by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2011; 2014). The discussion has mainly revolved around a long-run contrast between Europe and the U.S., even though data on explicit historical inheritance flows are only really available for...
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important differences among firms in economic competence, here represented by efficiency and investment behavior, the … relationships between investment, productivity, and economic growth are much more complex and unpredictable than commonly assumed … frontiers. <p> It is also shown that the conditions which determine firm borrowing for investment (involving their …
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