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Estimating direct and indirect effects of foreign direct investment on firm productivity in the presence of interactions between firms

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2014

We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in a unifying framework, taking interactions between firms...

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Can you teach old dragons new tricks? : FDI and innovation activity in Chinese state-owned enterprises

Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Gong, Yundan (contributor); … - 2006

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital participation is associated with higher innovative activity. Inward FDI … in the sector has a negative effect on innovative activity in SOEs. However, there is a positive effect of FDI on SOEs …

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Wage inequality, linkages and FDI

Driffield, Nigel L.; Girma, Sourafel; Henry, Michael; … - 2010

This paper extends the existing literature on FDI and wage inequality. We do this in two ways. Firstly, we incorporate … and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the effects that inward investment has on wage inequality, we then analyse … has on this. We illustrate the important differences that horizontal and vertical FDI have on both wages and wage …

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Investment liberalisation, technology take-off and export market entry : does foreign ownership structure matter?

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2015

Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory export and technology transfer requirements imposed on foreign firms have been lifted in a number...

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Blessing or curse?: Domestic plants' survival and employment prospects after foreign acquisitions

Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Evaluating the causal effects of foreign acquisition on domestic skilled and unskilled wages

Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Creating jobs through public subsidies : an empirical analysis

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, … - 2007

in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete grant history. We provide evidence that …

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Government grants, plant survival and employment growth : a micro-econometric analysis

Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Foreign direct investment, spillovers and absorptive capacity: evidence from quantile regressions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2005

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … matters for productivity spillover benefits. We find evidence for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI …

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