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Firm Size Distribution and Employment Fluctuations: Theory and Evidence

Görg, Holger; Henze, Philipp; Jienwatcharamongkhol, Viroj - 2016

This paper studies the effect of the firm-size distribution on the relationship between employment and output. We construct a theoretical model, which predicts that changes in demand for industry output have larger effects on employment in industries characterised by a distribution that is more...

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Much ado about nothing? Do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment?

Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2003

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

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Why Are Africa's Female Entrepreneurs Not Playing the Export Game? Evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles G.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; … - 2020

We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011–2015. Uniquely, the data provides information about the severity of key business constraints, across both male and...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Spillovers and Absorptive Capacity : Evidence from Quantile Regressions

Girma, Sourafel - 2016

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … located at different quantiles of the productivity distribution by using conditional quantile regression. Overall, while there … matters for productivity spillover benefits. We find evidence for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI …

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Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment?

Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703573