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Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory export and technology transfer requirements imposed on foreign firms have been lifted in a number...
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We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in a unifying framework, taking interactions between firms...
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This paper extends the existing literature on FDI and wage inequality. We do this in two ways. Firstly, we incorporate … and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the effects that inward investment has on wage inequality, we then analyse … has on this. We illustrate the important differences that horizontal and vertical FDI have on both wages and wage …
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We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital participation is associated with higher innovative activity. Inward FDI … in the sector has a negative effect on innovative activity in SOEs. However, there is a positive effect of FDI on SOEs …
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associated with the greater use of health and education services. Our results, for Ireland in the year 2000, show that it is …
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investigated using a discrete choice static labour supply model for married couples in Ireland. The model incorporates fixed costs … from the 1994 wave of the Living in Ireland Survey. The results are used to analyse the labour supply effects of a move to …
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There are two main sources of data on income distribution. Household based surveys report mainly on inequality in equivalised household level disposable income. Top income shares, on the other hand, focus on the tax unit as the unit of analysis, because administrative records are obtained from...
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analysis here serves as an updated picture of the distributional effects of the indirect tax system in Ireland, as well as a …
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Ireland is one of the countries most severely affected by the Great Recession. National income fell by more than 10 per …
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in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants and their complete grant history. We provide evidence that …
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