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surprisingly, personal income tax rates turn out relatively less important than profit tax rates for bilateral FDI stocks. The … employee-borne part of labor taxes determines bilateral FDI significantly different from zero: both a higher employee-borne tax …This paper analyzes the implications of effective taxation of labor for profits and, hence, the location decision of a …
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role of aspects of labor taxation for the international location of headquarters. While profit taxes can be avoided in … various ways, it is much harder for firms to manipulate the firm-specific labor tax base so that they may be relatively … location of 35,206 firms to analyze the impact of labor income tax rates, the progressivity of the income tax schedule, and …
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countries, rather than for its international clients, and on the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI), which emphasizes … significant costs of investment. Using a new detailed data set of non-stationary sector-level outward FDI, this paper finds that … the volume of FDI by home market banks boosts FDI by non-financial firms from the same home market. Domestic and third …
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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...
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Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...
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performance to vary with foreign direct investment (FDI) and shows that the foreign expansion itself is the dominant explanatory … outward FDI would lead to more domestic worker separations. FDI raises domestic-worker retention more pronouncedly among …
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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...
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Recent research in international economics highlights the role of interdependencies of investment decisions and sales of multinational firms. Previous work focused on and provided evidence for aggregate flows or stocks of foreign direct investment, showing that interdependence declines in...
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships … in FDI decisions have been provided for goods manufacturing by utilizing physical distance-based measures of trade costs …. This paper investigates spatial interactions for services FDI using several distance measures, including physical distance …
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between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology … introduction of productivity growth increases the likeliness of first time market entry through FDI. If the firm is confronted with … uncertain productivity growth, market entry through FDI increases even further. Uncertainty is identified as a compounding force …
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