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Driffield, Nigel; Girma, Sourafel; Henry, Michael; … - 2010

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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Do Foreign Firms Really Pay Higher Wages? : Evidence from Different Estimators

Martins, Pedro Silva - 2004

We contribute to the literature on Foreign Direct Investment and labour markets by examining wage differentials between domestic and foreign firms, drawing on a large Portuguese matched employer-employee panel. Using OLS, the foreign-firm premium is large and significantly positive but falls...

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FDI and wages: Evidence from firm-level and linked employer-employee data in Hungary, 1986 - 2008

Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos; Antal, Gábor - 2012

We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer … strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …

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International specialization and the return to capital

Batista, Cátia; Potin, Jacques - 2010

How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and developed countries over the period 1976-2000. We confirm the Heckscher-Ohlin prediction that, with...

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Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs : Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Estrin, Saul; Meyer, Klaus - 2004

, employment growth. For a dataset covering four diverse emerging economies, we find that wholly-owned FDI operations have higher …

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Wages and International Rent Sharing in Multinational Firms

Budd, John W.; Konings, Jozef; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2002

We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond...

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Evaluating the causal effects of foreign acquisition on domestic skilled and unskilled wages

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003

This paper investigates the effects of the takeover of a domestic establishment by foreign owners on the domestic target?s development of wages for skilled and unskilled workers. We pay particular attention to identifying the causal effect, using a propensity score matching approach combined...

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Should I stay or should I go? A note on employment protection, domestic anchorage, and FDI

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Montagna, Catia - 2003

simple theoretical framework, we estimate an empirical model, using OECD-data on bilateral FDI-flows and employment … location is inimical to foreign direct investment (FDI), a high domestic level of employment protection tends to discourage … outward FDI. The results are in line with our conjecture that strict employment protection in the firm?s home country makes …

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Fancy a stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign direct investment, taxation and firing costs

Görg, Holger - 2002

investment (FDI). This issue does not appear to have been tackled in much detail in the literature. The analysis considers the … costs) on the location of US outward FDI in 33 host countries. The results suggest that US FDI, in particular in … manufacturing is negatively affected by the level of profit taxation and exit costs. Hence, if countries want to attract FDI it may …

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Offshoring and firm performance: self-selection, effects on performance, or both?

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper uses unique new data for German manufacturing enterprises from matched regular surveys and a special purpose survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation of activities to a foreign country on various dimensions of firm performance. Enterprises that relocated activities abroad...

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