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Do foreign-owned firms provide better working conditions than their domestic counterparts? A comparative analysis
Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro Silva; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2010
This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275850
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Trade and Inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower … shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … a large growth of net imports from China (such as the UK and the US), than in countries that maintained relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882490
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Help in a Foreign Land: Internationalized Banks and Firms’ Export
Brancati, Emanuele - 2022
The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper analyzes whether banks can support firms’ export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a large sample of Italian firms for which we merge custom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351997
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Trade Policy Uncertainty, Offshoring, and the Environment: Evidence from US Manufacturing Establishments
Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023
reduction in US trade policy uncertainty: the conferral of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China. Using detailed data … establish more subsidiaries in China after PNTR, especially those that emit pollutants heavily. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296663
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The Impact of Robot Adoption on Global Sourcing
Cilekoglu, Akin A.; Moreno, Rosina; Ramos, Raul - 2021
This paper studies the impact of robot adoption on firms' global sourcing activities. Using a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms, we show that robot adopting firms increased their intermediate input purchases from foreign and domestic suppliers between 2006 and 2016. The effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597401
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Exports and Productivity Growth: First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822920
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Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions Than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis
Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S.; Schank, Thorsten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in the empirical literature by applying a standardised methodology to firm-level data for three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684798
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The Effects of FDI Liberalization on Structural Transformation and Demographic Change: Evidence from China
Erten, Bilge; Leight, Jessica; Zhu, Lianming - 2023
How does foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization shape structural transformation and demographic change in developing countries? We provide new evidence on this question using five waves of Chinese census data between 1990 and 2015, exploiting quasi-exogenous variation in FDI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296838
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Time to Say Goodbye? The Impact of Environmental Regulation on Foreign Divestment
Mao, Haiou; Görg, Holger; Fang, Guopei - 2023
use the implementation of China's Two Control Zone (TCZ) policy as a "quasi-natural experiment", using detailed firm level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377309
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Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-off and Export Market Entry: Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2015
Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As … positively to China's "science and technology take-off". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531694