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Do foreign-owned firms provide better working conditions than their domestic counterparts? : a comparative analysis
Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S.; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2010
standardised methodology to firm-level data for three developed (Germany, Portugal, UK) and two emerging economies (Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153566
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Corruption, networking and foreign ownership : recent evidence from CEE countries
Pal, Sarmistha - 2013
The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher host corruption will be associated with higher foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195528
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Distance to the efficiency frontier and FDI spillovers
Sabirianova Peter, Klara (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002452319
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Differences in US-German time-allocation : why do Americans work longer hours than Germans?
Schettkat, Roland (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001744072
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The interdependence of R&D activity and debt financing of young firms
Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - 2011
structure ; business start-ups ; KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523478
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Foreign ownership and firm survival : first evidence for enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim; Weche Gelübcke, John Philipp - 2011
This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany. -- foreign ownership ; firm survival ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523502
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Exports, foreign direct investments and productivity : are services firms different?
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009425691
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Do foreign owners favor short-term profit? : evidence from Germany
Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2014
Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354622
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The hardships of long distance relationships : time zone proximity and knowledge transmission within multinational firms
Bahar, Dany - 2018
Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary's economic activity, emerging from dynamics related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891832
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Foreign ownership and intra-firm union density in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017
From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762256