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

Chen, Zhao; Fang, Tony - 2016

The rapid growth and high levels of internationalization by Chinese firms, raise a natural interest in the study of the factors which have led the notable international presence of Chinese firms. To contribute to this effort, we use data from the 2008-10 survey of China's High-tech firms,...

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Foreign acquisitions, domestic multinationals, and R&D

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger; Karpaty, Patrik - 2010

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and nonmultinationals, which allows us to investigate the fear that the change in ownership of domestic to foreign...

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Margins of multinational labor substitution

Muendler, Marc-Andreas (contributor); … - 2006

Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...

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Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility : an empirical investigation

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2002

While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which...

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Wage inequality, linkages and FDI

Driffield, Nigel L.; Girma, Sourafel; Henry, Michael; … - 2010

more precise measures of inward investment into the model, by allowing for differences in the effects between horizontal … and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the effects that inward investment has on wage inequality, we then analyse … the reasons for this in terms of the wages paid to skilled and unskilled workers, and the effect that inward investment …

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Refugees and foreign direct investment : quasi-experimental evidence from U.S. resettlements

Mayda, Anna Maria; Parsons, Christopher R.; Han Pham; … - 2019

We exploit the designs of two separate U.S. refugee dispersal policies to provide causal evidence that refugees foster outward FDI to their countries of origin. Drawing upon aggregated individual-level refugee and project-level FDI data, we first leverage the quasi-random distribution of...

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Regulating manufacturing FDI : local labor market responses to a protectionist policy in Indonesia

Gehrke, Esther; Genthner, Robert; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2024

We analyze the effect of rising protectionism towards foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic employment …, exploiting revisions in Indonesia’s highly-granular negative investment list, and spatial variation in the exposure of the … manufacturing sector to these investment restrictions. Rising FDI restrictions caused employment gains at the local level …

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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...

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Interest rate bands of inaction and play-hysteresis in domestic investment : evidence for the Euro area

Belke, Ansgar; Frenzel Baudisch, Coletta; Göcke, Matthias - 2019

The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability …. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank … impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under certainty and under uncertainty to investigate …

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Heterogeneous immigrants and foreign direct investment : the role of language skills

Lücke, Matthias; Heidland, Tobias - 2015

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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