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Techies and Firm Level Productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023
We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by leveraging French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with...
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Foreign Ownership and Skillbiased Technological Change
Koch, Michael - 2019
We conduct an empirical investigation into the effects of foreign ownership on worker skills using firm-level data from … Spain. To control for endogeneity bias due to selection into foreign ownership, we combine a difference …-in-differences approach with a propensity score weighting estimator. Our results provide novel evidence that foreign-acquired firms actively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892251
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A Spatial Analysis of Inward FDI and Rural-Urban Wage Inequality : Evidence from China
Wang, Hao - 2020
When investigating the relationship between inward FDI and rural-urban inequality, previous studies overlook the inter-regional interactions. Building on the literature that highlights the significant role of rural-urban migration in inequality, this article investigates spatial spillover effect...
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Investor-State Dispute Settlement and Multinational Firm Behavior
Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2020
to a foreign investor do not imply a zero-sum game. ISDS may decrease domestic welfare, in particular if the investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823148
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Voting with Their Money : Brexit and Outward Investment by UK Firms
Breinlich, Holger - 2019
We study the impact of the 2016 Brexit referendum on UK foreign direct investment. Using the synthetic control method …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865920
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The Employment Effect of Inward FDI in China : What Do We Learn from the History?
Wang, Hao - 2020
This study investigates the long-term influence of colonial legacy on the nexus between inward foreign direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829321
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The Trade and FDI Effects of EMU Enlargement
Brouwer, J.; Paap, Richard; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2021
This paper considers the nature and the distribution of trade and FDI effects of a potential enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) to the ten countries that obtained EU membership in 2004. One-way and two-way error component gravity models are estimated using a dataset of unbalanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316812
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Optimal Ownership and Firm Performance : An Analysis of China's FDI Liberalization
Eppinger, Peter; Ma, Hong - 2023
restrictions on foreign ownership. The liberalization allowed previously restricted firms to become fully foreign owned. We find …
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Credit Market Imperfection, Lack of Entrepreneurs and Capital Outflow from a Developing Economy
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
This paper explores the impact of credit market on the entrepreneurs and demand for credit in a credit constrained economy and the resultant impact on the capital flows. In standard trade models the capital flows across countries are explained as a result of the rate of return differentials due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824582
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The Political Economy of Taxation: Power, Structure, Redistribution
Winer, Stanley L. - 2016
In this chapter I provide an overview of the political economy of taxation in democratic states by considering the three most important issues in the field: (1) the evolution of the power to tax in (what are now) the mature constitutional democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584951