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Evaluating the Foreign Ownership Wage Premium Using a Difference-Indifferences Matching Approach
Girma, Sourafel - 2008
This paper seeks to identify the causal effect of foreign acquisitions on wages of skilled and unskilled workers, using difference-in-differences propensity score matching estimators. Our results suggest that there is substantial heterogeneity in the post-acquisition wage effect depending on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726940
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Tax Competition for Heterogeneous Firms with Endogenous Entry : The Case of Heterogeneous Fixed Costs
Davies, Ronald B. - 2007
This paper models tax competition for mobile firms that are differentiated by the amount of labor needed to cover fixed costs. Because tax competition affects the distribution of firms, it affects both relative equilibrium wages across countries and equilibrium prices. These in turn influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012730250
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The Effect of FDI on Child Labor
Davies, Ronald B.; Voy, Annie - 2007
This paper examines the extent to which foreign direct investment (FDI) affects child labor. Using 1995 data for 145 … countries, we find that, contrary to common fears, FDI is negatively correlated with child labor. This effect, however …, disappears when controlling for per capita income. After doing so, we find no robust effect of either FDI or international trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051404
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Tax Competition for Heterogeneous Firms with Endogenous Entry
Davies, Ronald B.; Eckel, Carsten - 2007
This paper models tax competition for mobile firms that are differentiated by the amount of labor needed to cover fixed costs. Because tax competition affects the distribution of firms, it affects both relative equilibrium wages across countries and equilibrium prices. These in turn influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051406
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The International Equity Holdings of Euro Area Investors
Lane, Philip R. - 2007
We provide a systematic analysis of bilateral, source and host factors driving portfolio equity investment by euro-area countries, using newly-released data on international equity holdings at the end of 2001. We find that bilateral equity holdings are strongly linked to bilateral trade in goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731595
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Steel Safeguards and the Welfare of U.S. Steel Firms and Downstream Consumers of Steel : A Shareholder Wealth Perspective
Liebman, Benjamin H. - 2006
This paper analyzes the steel safeguards implemented and subsequently removed during 2001-2003. Our results reveal that for shareholders of U.S. steel companies, safeguards generated positive quot;abnormalquot; returns of approximately 6%; and the cancellation of the safeguards resulted in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733076
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Location Choices of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Europe after 1992
Ruane, Frances; Zhang, Xiaoheng - 2007
Differences in regulations, technical standards and national medical cultures across EU member states created a highly segmented pharmaceutical market in Europe prior to the implementation of the Single Market Programme. The subsequent reduction in non-tariff barriers to trade would be expected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051399
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Capital Flows to Central and Eastern Europe
Lane, Philip R. - 2006
structure in terms of the relative importance of FDI, portfolio equity, and external debt. In addition, we briefly describe the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733033
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Foreign Direct Investment in Ireland : Policy Implications for Emerging Economies
Ruane, Frances - 2006
the foreign direct investment (FDI) they control impacts on overall economic activity in the recipient countries. Of … specific interest is the policy context in which such FDI flows into the developing country and how a government can influence … country policy regime promotes FDI selectively, and secondly, where it promotes the creation of industrial clusters. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733127
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The Importance of Social Factors When Assessing the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth
Vo, Xuan Vinh; Batten, Jonathan A. - 2014
linkage between FDI and economic growth and does this relationship change under different legal, institutional, educational … and economic conditions? Overall the analysis supports the view that FDI has a stronger positive impact on economic growth … policy objectives - such as education, legal and institutional reform - to maximise the benefits from FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026595