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Does foreign entry spur innovation?
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2015
Our estimates, based on large firm-level and industry-level data sets from eighteen countries, suggest that FDI and trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The FDI effect is more pronounced for firms from advanced...
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The impact of life-course developments on pensions in the NDC systems in Poland, Italy and Sweden and point system in Germany
Chłoń-Domińczak, Agnieszka; Góra, Marek; Kotowska, … - 2018
countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. There … are pronounced differences in the labour market participation in the four countries: high levels of employment in Germany … and Sweden are in contrast with low levels of employment in Italy and Poland. In the latter two countries, there is also a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798236
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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 … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany. -- foreign ownership ; firm survival ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523502
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Exports, foreign direct investments and productivity : are services firms different?
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009425691
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354622
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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 present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary's economic activity, emerging from dynamics related to...
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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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms’ international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937886
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Trade, quality upgrading and wage inequality in the Mexican manufacturing sector
Verhoogen, Eric (contributor) - 2007
This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in developing countries the quality-upgrading mechanism and investigates its empirical implications in panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants. In a model with heterogeneous plants and quality-differentiated goods, only the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591494
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Manufacturing employment and exchange rates in the Portuguese economy : the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity
Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2010
In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination of the effect of the exchange rate on employment in Portugal. We develop an index that allows us to measure labour market flexibility at the sector level. This index shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153576