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South-South FDI and Development in East Asia

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2011

This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the … differences between South-South FDI and North-South FDI. Among the comparisons of the two types of FDI we try to summarize are be …

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Foreign Direct Investments in Southeast Asia

Sjöholm, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2013

decades. South East Asia has been part of this development with rapidly increasing inflows of FDI. However, there are large … variations over time and between countries in the region as regard to the policies towards FDI, and in actual inflows of FDI …. This chapter aims at examining the size of FDI in South East Asia and the trends in it. The main determinants of FDI in …

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IS THERE REALLY A FOREIGN OWNERSHIP WAGE PREMIUM?EVIDENCE FROM MATCHED EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA.

Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Gustavsson … - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2004

Numerous studies based on firm-level data have reported higher average wages in foreign-owned firms than in domestically-owned firms. This, however, does not necessarily imply that the individual worker’s wage increase with foreign ownership. Using detailed matched employer-employee data, we...

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International Experience and the Performance of Scandinavian Firms in China

Carlsson, Johan; Nordegren, Axel; Sjöholm, Fredrik - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2004

Western firms locating in China face a business environment that differs from their home country environment. The differences increase uncertainties and are negative for economic performance. However, firms may differ in their ability to overcome the difficulties, depending on their previous...

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IS THERE REALLY A FOREIGN OWNERSHIP WAGE PREMIUM? EVIDENCE FROM MATCHED EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA

Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Gustavsson … - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2006

Numerous studies on firm-level data have reported higher average wages in foreign-owned firms than in domestically-owned firms. This, however, does not necessarily imply that the individual worker’s wage increase with foreign ownership. Using detailed matched employer-employee data on the...

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HOST COUNTRY IMPACTS OF INWARD FDI: WHY SUCH DIFFERENT ANSWERS?

Lipsey, Robert; Sjöholm, Fredrik - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2004

A substantial literature has grown up around the issue of how inward direct investment affects host countries. On almost every aspect of this question, there seems to be a wide range of empirical results in academic literature, and little sign of convergence. It is our purpose here to try to...

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Foreign Firms and Indonesian Manufacturing Wages: An Analysis with Panel Data

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2002

Wages in domestically- owned Indonesian manufacturing plants taken over by foreign firms increased sharply between the year before takeover and two years after takeover, relative to plants remaining in domestic ownership. Blue- collar wage levels in these plants had been less than 10 per cent...

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INNOVATIVE CAPABILITY IN MNC SUBSIDIARIES: EVIDENCE FROM FOUR EUROPEAN TRANSITION ECONOMIES

Kokko, Ari; Kravtsova, Victoria - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2006

be expected to have some impact on the kinds of spillovers different kinds of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects …

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THE HOME COUNTRY EFFECTS OF FDI IN DEVELOPED ECONOMIES

Kokko, Ari - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2006

knowledge, and political decision-making in the home country. The main conclusion is that outward FDI is beneficial to the … effects (particularly on the balance-of-payments) has at times motivated restrictions on FDI. The final part of the paper … which may, at least in theory, provide an alternative to inward FDI as a source of technology for the more advanced …

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Acquisitions, Multinationals, and Wage Dispersion

Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Gustavsson … - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2006

Multinational firms pay relatively high wages. Less is known about the wage structure within multinational and non-multinational firms. We examine the impact of acquisitions on wage dispersion in Sweden using a large matched employer-employee data set. Foreign acquisitions of Swedish firms...

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