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Do foreign-owned firms pay more?
Harrison, Ann E.; Scorse, Jason - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper uses Indonesian data to analyze the impact of foreign ownership on wages. After controlling for worker and firm characteristics, we find that foreign firms pay a wage premium, which is larger for skilled relative to unskilled workers.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647417
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A strategic shift of automobile manufacturing firms in Turkey
Gursoy, Guner - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper examines major business environmental changes influencing a strategic shift of automobile manufacturing firms in Turkey. Within a conceptual model consisting of environmental forces, strategic shift, and mediating variables, including firm size, ownership pattern, and market entry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545941
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Post-Soviet countries in global and regional institutional competition: The case of Kazakhstan
Libman, Alexander; Ushkalova, Daria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
influenced the country’s position in competing for FDI. Moreover, the paper looks at the relative importance of individual levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621757
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The Behavior of FDI in South Asian Countries
Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Syed, Shabib Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper analyzes the behavior of FDI in South Asian countries using panel data for the period 1970-2004. We applied … fixed effects model to identify the factors that determine FDI inflows. The analysis shows that GDP, trade openness, real … exchange rate, labor force and health expenditures affect FDI positively and significantly. While the impact of military …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110391
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US multinational activity abroad and US jobs: substitutes or complements?
Harrison, Ann; McMillan, Margaret S.; Null, Clair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Critics of globalization claim that firms are being driven by the prospects of cheaper labor and lower labor standards to shift employment abroad. Yet the evidence, beyond anecdotes, is slim. This paper reports stylized facts on the activities of U.S. multinationals at home and abroad for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651381
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From national monopoly to Multinational Corporation: how regulation shaped the road towards telecommunications internationalization
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Comín Comín, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
One of the consequences of major regulatory reform of the telecommunications sector from the end of the 1970s – particularly, privatization, liberalization and deregulation – was the establishment of a new business environment which permitted former national telecommunications monopolies to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283796
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Explaining Telecoms and Electricity Internationalization in the European Union: A Political Economy Perspective
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Revuelta, Julio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
One consequence of the liberalization of certain services in the European Union was that a number of formerly inward-looking incumbents in telecommunications and electricity rapidly transformed themselves into some of the world’s leading Multinationals. However, the precise relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283802
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Multinationals in economic development: the benefits of FDI
Harrison, Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
During her five years at the World Bank, Harrison initiated four studies involving multinational enterprises in four developing countries: Ivory Coast, Mexico, Morocco and Venezuela. These studies measure the role of multinational enterprises in promoting technology transfer; test whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647361
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The Supply of Foreign Direct Investment Incentives: Subsidy Competition in an Oligopolistic Framework
Havranek, Tomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines the microeconomic motivation of governments to provide tax incentives for foreign direct investment. Author applies the classical models of oligopoly to subsidy competition, endogenousing investment incentives, but leaving tax rates exogenous. According to the conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789662
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Kompetenzaufteilung in konzerninternen Netzwerken der Automobilindustrie: Chance für Standort und Region?
Winter, Johannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
corporate competencies. By means of FDI and local efforts, selected locations in Central Eastern Europe – among them Poland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837149