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The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment
Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - CESifo - 2014
This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734330
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Do Multinationals Transfer Culture? Evidence on Female Employment in China
Tang, Heiwai - 2017
We study the global diffusion of culture through multinationals, focusing on gender norms. Using data on manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962989
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Does Public Governance Always Matter? How Experience of Poor Institutional Quality Influences FDI to the South
Darby, Julia - 2011
This paper investigates whether the higher prevalence of South multinational enterprises (MNEs) in risky developing countries may be explained by the experience that they have acquired of poor institutional quality at home. We confirm the intuition provided by our analytical model by empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131603
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Home Bank Intermediation of Foreign Direct Investment
Poelhekke, Steven - 2011
This paper investigates the benefits of banks' direct investment in foreign subsidiaries and branches for non-financial multinationals. The paper builds on the literature on international banks which has primarily focused on the implications for host countries, rather than for its international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123798
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Preference Bias and Outsourcing to Market : A Steady-State Analysis
Wang, Ping - 2008
We analyze a model that focuses on the export/outsource decision. Outsourcing has the advantage of providing better information about local preferences. The disadvantage is that producing in the host country also means using the inferior technology embodied in the local capital. The decision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772614
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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2008
affect employment. Our strategy detects salient adjustments at the extensive margin for German MNEs. With every percentage … increase in German wages, German MNEs allocate 2,000 manufacturing jobs to Eastern Europe at the extensive margin and 4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774187
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In Praise of Tax Havens : International Tax Planning and Foreign Direct Investment
Hong, Qing - 2007
The multinationalization of corporate investment in recent years has given rise to a number of international tax avoidance schemes that may be eroding tax revenues in industrialized countries, but which may also reduce tax burdens on mobile capital and so facilitate investment. Both the welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777300
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The Effect of FDI on Job Separation
Becker, Sascha O. - 2006
A novel linked employer-employee data set documents that expanding multinational enterprises retain more domestic jobs than competitors without foreign expansions. In contrast to prior research, a propensity score estimator allows enterprise performance to vary with foreign direct investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778928
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Asset Ownership and Foreign-Market Entry
Raff, Horst - 2006
This paper examines the link between a firm's ownership of productive assets and its choice of foreign-market entry strategy. We find that, controlling for industry - and country-specific characteristics, the most productive firms (i.e., those owning the most assets) will enter through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780461
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Is Human Capital Losing from Outsourcing? Evidence for Austria and Poland
Lorentowicz, Andzelika - 2006
Feenstra and Hanson (1997) have argued in the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement that US outsourcing to Mexico leads to an increase in the skill premium in both the US and Mexico. In this paper we show on the example of Austria and Poland that with the new international division...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783602