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Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment?
Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of spillover benefits to augment the primary benefits of a boost to national income from new investment. This paper begins by reviewing possible sources of FDI induced spillovers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703573
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Much ado about nothing? Do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment?
Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2003
Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of spillover benefits to augment the primary benefits of a boost to national income from new investment. This paper begins by reviewing possible sources of FDI induced spillovers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265405
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Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility: an empirical investigation
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2002
the literature. Our results suggest that firms which are run by owners that worked for multinationals in the same industry … firm. We do not find any positive effects on firm level productivity if the owner had experience in multinationals in other … industries, or received training by multinationals. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265549
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Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements
Mayda, Anna Maria; Parsons, Christopher; Pham, Han; … - 2019
We exploit the designs of two separate U.S. refugee dispersal policies to provide causal evidence that refugees foster outward FDI to their countries of origin. Drawing upon aggregated individual-level refugee and project-level FDI data, we first leverage the quasi-random distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180053
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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments
Palokangas, Tapio - 2003
This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261532
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Spillovers From Foreign Firms Through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
the literature. Our results suggest that firms which are run by owners that worked for multinationals in the same industry … firm. We do not find any positive effects on firm level productivity if the owner had experience in multinationals in other … industries, or received training by multinationals. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566419
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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments
Palokangas, Tapio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761987
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265391
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Spillovers through backward linkages from multinationals: measurement matters!
Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2009
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 inputs, (ii) multinationals have the same input sourcing behaviour as … domestic firms, irrespective of their country of origin, and (iii) the demand for locally produced inputs by multinationals is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277454
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Spillovers Through Backward Linkages from Multinationals: Measurement Matters!
Barrios, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
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 inputs, (ii) multinationals have the same input sourcing behaviour as … domestic firms, irrespective of their country of origin, and (iii) the demand for locally produced inputs by multinationals is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008517974