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The hardships of long distance relationships : time zone proximity and knowledge transmission within multinational firms
Bahar, Dany - 2018
Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I … role in the location strategies of multinational corporations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891832
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Foreign ownership and intra-firm union density in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017
From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762256
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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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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence
Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018
. Stricter employment protection laws over time in the current production location discourage firms' relocation abroad. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853748
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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". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510581
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335420
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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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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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