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Globalised labour markets? : international rent sharing across 47 countries
Martins, Pedro S.; Yang, Yong - 2010
We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering 47 home and host countries. We find considerable...
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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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Wages and international rent sharing in multinational firms
Budd, John W.; Konings, Jozef; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2002
We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond...
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Catalyzing gender equality : foreign MNC subsidiaries as agents of change in mitigating wage discrimination against women
Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2023
Wage discrimination against women remains a major obstacle to fair economic opportunities for women and a grand challenge constraining economic growth in many countries. Existing research is ambivalent about whether foreign MNC subsidiaries as employers of women offer a solution to this grand...
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Employment effects of privatisation and foreign acquisition of Chinese state-owned enterprises
Gong, Yundan (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor);  … - 2006
(SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003500290
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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 … positively to China's "science and technology take-off". …
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Industrialization lessons from BRICS : a comparative analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
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Time to say goodbye? : the impact of environmental regulation on foreign divestment
Mao, Haiou; Görg, Holger; Fang, Guopei - 2023
use the implementation of China's Two Control Zone (TCZ) policy as a "quasi-natural experiment", using detailed firm level …
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Tenure profiles and efficient separation in a stochastic productivity model
Buhai, Sebastian (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper provides a new way of analyzing tenure profiles in wages, by modelling simultaneously the evolution of wages and the distribution of tenures. We develop a theoretical model based on efficient bargaining, where both log outside wage and log wage in the current job follow a random walk,...
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Training and retirement
Kristensen, Nicolai - 2012
This paper presents results on the effect of formal life-long learning on the decision to retire early. Specifically, I estimate an Option Value model based on individual employer-employee longitudinal data including comprehensive government co-sponsored training records dating back more than 30...
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