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From estimation resultsto stylized facts : twelve recommendations for empirical research in international activities of heterogeneous firms
Wagner, Joachim - 2010
Heterogeneous firms are at the heart of both the New New International Trade Theory and the Micro-econometrics of International Firm Activities. One important aim of microeconometric studies is to uncover stylized facts that hold over space and time, and that can both inspire theoretical models...
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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...
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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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Suppliers of multinationals and the forced linkage effect : evidence from firm level data
Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger - 2013
Using information on more than 1000 firms in a number of emerging countries, we find quantitative evidence that suppliers of multinationals that are pressured by their customers to reduce production costs or develop new products have higher productivity growth than other firms, including other...
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China's latent human capital investment : achieving milestones and competing for the top
Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
In this paper we provide an overview of China's human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two … decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China's notable … Chinese modern higher education system China has made tremendous strides in education both domestically and internationally …
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Emigration from the UK, 1870 - 1913 and 1950 - 1998
Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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War of the waves : radio and resistance during World War II
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano; … - 2017
Can counter-propaganda by a foreign democratic country help to overthrow an authoritarian military regime? And if so, what are the mechanisms through which this happens? We analyze these questions in the context of the Nazi-fascist occupation of Italy during WWII. We study the effect of BBC...
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Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2007
The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...
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