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The effects of foreign owned firms on the labor market

Almeida, Rita K. (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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Bonus payments and reference point violations

Ockenfels, Axel; Sliwka, Dirk; Werner, Peter - 2010

We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941775

Firms' global engagement and management practices

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2017

related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of … management practices in Germany, we calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013). These indicate how … structured management is in a given firm. We find that switching into exporting, and to a lesser degree opening up affiliates …

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Employment and wage effects of privatization : evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor); … - 2008

We use longitudinal methods and universal panel data on 30,000 initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage...

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Paying more to hire the best? : foreign firms, wages and worker mobility

Martins, Pedro S. (contributor) - 2008

In the context of the debate on the labour-market consequences of globalisation, we examine worker mobility in order to identify the wage differences between foreign and domestic firms. Using matched employer-employee panel data for Portugal, we consider virtually all spells of interfirm...

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Margins of multinational labor substitution

Muendler, Marc-Andreas (contributor); … - 2006

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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Cross-border mergers and national champions in an integrating economy

Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2006

We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to three different issues, (i) the level of trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent...

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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009

This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...

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Re-orient? : MNC penetration and contemporary shifts in the global political economy

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the "Re-orient" approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...

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