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The Linkages between FDI and Domestic Investment: Unravelling the Developmental Impact of Foreign Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ndikumana, Leonce; Verick, Sher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome development, the … the impact of FDI on development is through its effects on domestic factor markets, especially domestic investment and … employment. In this context, this study analyses the two-way linkages between FDI and domestic investment in Sub-Saharan Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763464
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The End of Cheap Labour: Are Foreign Investors Leaving China?
Donaubauer, Julian; Dreger, Christian - 2016
paper, we raise the hypothesis that soaring wages negatively affect FDI inflows to China and alter the distribution of FDI … direction of FDI inflows. By performing panel models with spatial effects for both Chinese provinces and developing ASEAN … the distribution of FDI within China. In addition, we show that the changes in China's economic strategy improve the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525028
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Pandemic-Era Uncertainty
Meyer, Brent; Mihaylov, Emil; Barrero, Jose Maria; … - 2022
We examine several measures of uncertainty to make five points. First, equity market traders and executives at nonfinancial firms have shared similar assessments about one-year-ahead uncertainty since the pandemic struck. Both the one-year VIX and our survey-based measure of firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351768
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Corporate Training and Skill Gaps: Did COVID-19 Stem EU Convergence in Training Investments?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Wruuck, Patricia - 2022
European firms have increasingly invested in training of employees but differences across countries and types of firms remain – and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over the last six years examining trends, factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351882
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The Heterogeneous Response of Real Estate Asset Prices to a Global Shock
Heiniger, Sandro; Koeniger, Winfried; Lechner, Michael - 2022
We estimate the transmission of the pandemic shock in 2020 to prices in the residential and commercial real estate market by causal machine learning, using new granular data at the municipal level for Germany. We exploit differences in the incidence of Covid infections or short-time work at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470462
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The Pandemic Push: Digital Technologies and Workforce Adjustments
Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023
Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in particular in hardware and software to enable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296806
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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Chinese provinces: a panel data analysis
Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - 2006
compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267745
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The linkages between FDI and domestic investment: unravelling the developmental impact of foreign investment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ndikumana, Léonce; Verick, Sher - 2008
While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome development, the … the impact of FDI on development is through its effects on domestic factor markets, especially domestic investment and … employment. In this context, this study analyses the two-way linkages between FDI and domestic investment in Sub-Saharan Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268902
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces: A Panel Data Analysis
Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233841
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Heterogeneous Immigrants and Foreign Direct Investment: The Role of Language Skills
Lücke, Matthias; Stöhr, Tobias - 2015
We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401684