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Estimating Direct and Indirect Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Firm Productivity in the Presence of Interactions between Firms
Girma, Sourafel - 2015
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 … in empirical studies examining a direct causal effect of foreign ownership on firm productivity, namely that of no …
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Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity
Dostie, Benoit; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2021
Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry-specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325062
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Suppliers of Multinationals and the Forced Linkage Effect : Evidence from Firm Level Data
Godart, Olivier - 2013
productivity growth than other firms, including other host country suppliers of multinationals. These findings provide first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087413
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Spillovers Through Backward Linkages from Multinationals : Measurement Matters!
Barrios, Salvador - 2009
We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, namely that (i) multinationals use domestically produced inputs in the same proportion as imported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155470
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Labor Market Imperfections, Markups and Productivity in Multinationals and Exporters
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2017
-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940834
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Foreign Acquisitions, Domestic Multinationals, and R&D
Bandick, Roger - 2010
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and non-multinationals, which allows us to investigate the fear that the change in ownership of domestic to foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136703
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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative data collected by the Tax Authorities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117183
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Domestic Multinationals, Foreign Affiliates, and Labour Demand Elasticities
Godart, Olivier - 2012
Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096440
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Wage Gains from Foreign Ownership : Evidence from Linked Employer–Employee Data
Köll?, János - 2020
We compare wages in multinational enterprises (MNEs) versus domestic firms, the earnings of domestic firm workers with past, future and no MNE experience, and estimate how the presence of ex-MNE peers affects the earnings of domestic firm employees. The analysis relies on monthly panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839048
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Foreign Ownership and Intra-Firm Union Density in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017
From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942097