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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...
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The effect on foreign direct investment of membership in the European Union
Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro; Estrin, Saul - 2020
This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what drives these effects. Using a structural gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288695
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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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Reform redux : measurement, determinants and reversals
Campos, Nauro (contributor); Horváth, Roman (contributor) - 2006
We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic impacts. We find that GDP growth determines external liberalization and privatization, concentration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310965
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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226717
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The regulation of migration in a transition economy : China's Hukou system
Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, … - 2009
Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools … extraordinary surge of migration within China. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904680
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The rise of the East and the Far East : German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" - China and Eastern Europe … ; employment ; China ; Eastern Europe ; Germany …
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China's emergence in the world economy and business cycles in Latin America
Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, … - 2011
vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … to Latin America and the rest of emerging Asia (excluding China and India) GDP has not undergone any significant change …
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Hit by the silk road : how wage coordination in Europe mitigates the China shock
Barth, Erling; Finseraas, Henning; Kjelsrud, Anders; … - 2020
economy. We test this theory by exploring within-country variation in exposure to competition from China in 13 European … exposure from China experienced a marked fall in employment, while countries with wage-coordination experienced no such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221759
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Importing political polarization? : the electoral consequences of rising trade exposure
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2020
to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315433