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Much ado about nothing? Do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment?
Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2003
productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …
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
While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this … immediately prior to opening up their own firm have higher productivity growth than other domestic firms. This suggests that these … firm. We do not find any positive effects on firm level productivity if the owner had experience in multinationals in other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265549
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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
productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703573
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Margins of multinational labor substitution
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Becker, Sascha O. - 2006
Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267727
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Wage inequality, linkages and FDI
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 more precise measures of inward investment into the model, by allowing for differences in the effects between horizontal and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269496
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Regulating Manufacturing FDI: Local Labor Market Responses to a Protectionist Policy in Indonesia
Gehrke, Esther; Genthner, Robert; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2024
-to-capital ratio and reduced productivity among regulated firms (which allowed smaller and less productive firms to enter the market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533906
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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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Chinese Returnees and High-tech Sector Outward FDI: The Case of Changzhou
Chen, Zhao; Fang, Tony - 2016
The rapid growth and high levels of internationalization by Chinese firms, raise a natural interest in the study of the factors which have led the notable international presence of Chinese firms. To contribute to this effort, we use data from the 2008-10 survey of China's High-tech firms,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524976
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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 contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. We demonstrate that right-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261532
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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 question remains as to the impact of these resource inflows on economic development. This study posits that a key channel of the impact of FDI on development is through its effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763464