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Industrial policy and Foreign Direct Investment
Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2021
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can benefit host countries by facilitating access to sophisticated technologies, good … consequence, countries trying to attract inflows of FDI need to consider what types of industrial policies will increase the … country's attractiveness to foreign firms. Moreover, different types of FDI are of different value for the host country and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703452
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Cross-Border Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Elasticities
Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2007
The growing number of cross-border acquisitions has in many countries raised concerns about labor demand consequences. In this study, we use detailed firm level data to examine how increased internationalization and multinational activity affect the volatility of employment, or rather, the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320149
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Multinational Firms and Job Tasks
Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, … - 2008
We use Swedish matched employer-employee data to analyze the impact of multinational activity and foreign acquisitions on the relative demand for different job tasks. We contribute to the literature by using a conceptualization from the recent literature in international economics and define the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320259
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South-South FDI and Development in East Asia
Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320352
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Foreign Direct Investments in Southeast Asia
Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2014
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 with respect to policies towards FDI, and in actual inflows of FDI. This … chapter aims to examine the size of FDI in South East Asia and trends in it. The main determinants of FDI in Southeast Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049645
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325847
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South-South FDI and Development in East Asia
Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014170039
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Foreign direct investments in Southeast Asia
Sjöholm, Fredrik - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335615
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Multinational Firms and Job Tasks
Hakkala, Katariina - 2010
We analyze the impact of multinational and foreign ownership on the demand for job tasks and educational skills. By using Swedish matched employer-employee data, we find that both foreign and domestic multinational firms have high shares of non-routine tasks and tasks requiring personal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137266
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010718624