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Why do foreign-owned-firms pay more? : the role of on-the-job training

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2002

Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a number of studies have documented and some attempted to explain this stylized fact, the issue...

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Is privatization working in Ukraine? : new estimates from comprehensive manufacturing firm data, 1989 - 2013

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015

This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large size and length of the time series in the data permit us to track the privatization process and to...

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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...

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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 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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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 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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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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Gender pay gap patterns in domestic and foreign-owned firms

Magda, Iga; Sałach, Katarzyna - 2019

We investigate differences in gender wage gaps between foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms in Poland, a country that has experienced large FDI inflows over the past three decades. In line with the findings of several other studies, we show that according to standard estimates of adjusted...

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Chinese returnees and high-tech sector outward FDI : the case of Changzhou

Chen, Zhao; Fang, Tony - 2016

determinants of Chinese firm outward FDI (OFDI). In our analysis, the primary independent variables include high-tech intensity … interesting patterns in OFDI outcomes. Most notable, among the significant determinants of OFDI, the number of Chinese returnees … as an important catalysts in the growth of OFDI and internationalization by Chinese firms. …

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Foreign direct investment and domestic entrepreneurship : blessing or curse?

Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Estrin, Saul; Reynolds, Paul … - 2013

This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro‐panel of more than two thousand individuals disaggregated by industry in seventy countries including both developed and developing economies,...

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Help in a foreign land : internationalized banks and firms' export

Brancati, Emanuele - 2022

The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a large sample of Italian firms for which we merge custom...

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