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employment in urban areas. But the ability of the manufacturing sector to engage workers will be constrained by the capital and … of "jobless growth", India has experienced concentrated employment growth, mainly in urban areas and for men. This has …, has led to greater absorption of workers, particularly women, in manufacturing. Looking at the future of work, the current …
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We ask whether the gendered division of work affects firm productivity across the spectrum of economic development. Personnel records of over 100,000 individuals hired by a global firm that operates in 100 countries reveal that the performance of female employees is higher where women are...
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Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role … labour-augmenting effect, increasing total manufacturing employment. The two-equation dynamic framework implemented to …There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed …
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(SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference … that domestic privatisation leads to contemporaneous reductions in employment growth compared to firms that did not undergo … an ownership change. By contrast, there is some evidence that foreign acquisitions show higher employment growth in the …
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manufacturing sector and different micro-econometric estimation strategies in order to control for the potential endogeneity of the …
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This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative data collected by the Tax Authorities and...
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The stylized literature on foreign direct investment suggests that developing countries should invest in the human capital of their labour force in order to attract foreign direct investment. However, if educational quality in developing country is uncertain such that formal education is a noisy...
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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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We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD reporting countries. Applying a Poisson panel estimator to 2004-2011 data, we find a robust positive effect of bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of...
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Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not sent from the foreign parent company. Moreover, the...
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