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FDI impact on firm performance in enlarged Europe : evidence from a meta-regression analysis
Bruno, Randolph; Cipollina, Maria - 2014
focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there exists a positive indirect impact of FDI on productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339576
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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523502
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Health status and the allocation of time : cross-country evidence from Europe
Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2014
This paper analyzes the relationship between reported health status and time allocation decisions in six European countries. Using the Multinational Time Use Study, we find that a better perception of own health is associated with less time devoted to sleep, personal care, and non-market work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434852
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Productivity gains from R&D investment : are high-tech sectors still ahead?
Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2011
unique longitudinal database consisting of 1,809 US and European manufacturing and service firms over the period 1990 … relevant coefficient. More interestingly, the coefficient turns out to be significantly larger in the service and high … ahead in terms of the impact on productivity of their R&D investments; moreover, a shift in favour of the service sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422268
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Reexamining the conditional effect of foreign direct investment
Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro - 2013
The prevailing consensus is that foreign direct investment (FDI) effects are conditional. At the macro level, they depend upon minimum levels of human capital or financial development, while at the micro level, they depend on type of linkage (forwards, backwards, or horizontal). This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757314
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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe : the role of services
D'Agostino, Antonello (contributor);  … - 2006
sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in … the share of service jobs in Europe relative to the US persists. Understanding the main factors behind this gap is key to …This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003464502
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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency : evidence from Europe’s top R&D investors
Kumbhakar, Subal; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, Lesley - 2009
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset consisting of 532 top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931968
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860906
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009006944
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Surviving the crisis : foreign multinationals vs domestic firms in Ireland
Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2011
Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the behaviour of foreign and domestic firms. One hypothesis is that foreign multinationals are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311507