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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2007
Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income level. This relationship is similar to that found for...
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Swedish Firms Acquired by Foreigners : A Comparison of Before and after Takeover
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2004
Swedish firms acquired by foreigners were considerably larger than the average firms in their industries. They were relatively low in value added per employee at the time of takeover and before, a characteristic we take to indicate relatively low profitability, capital intensity, or...
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A Heckscher-Ohlin View of Sweden Competing in the Global Market
Leamer, Edward E.; Lundborg, Per - 2021
, Sweden remains well supplied with soft-wood forests. Although contributing substantially to GDP forest resources can also …
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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment : Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden
Blomstrom, Magnus; Fors, Gunnar; Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021
We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals with that in Swedish firms. U.S. multinationals appear to have allocated some of their more labor intensive operations selling in world markets to affiliates in developing...
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Internationalized Production in World Output
Lipsey, Robert E.; Blomstrom, Magnus; Ramstetter, Eric D. - 2021
Internationalized production, that is, production by multinational firms outside their home countries has increased over the last two decades, but it was still, in 1990, only about 7 percent of world output. The share was higher, at 15 percent in 'industry,' including manufacturing, trade,...
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The Export Performance of Swedish and U.S. Multinationals
Blomstrom, Magnus; Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021
While the U.S. and Sweden both lost more than 20 per cent of their shares of world and developed countries' exports of …. These developments suggest that the declining trade shares of the U.S. and Sweden were not due mainly to deterioration in … Sweden, and in all industry groups, with one exception, the multinationals' export shares increased relative to those of …
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Home Country Effects of Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence from Sweden
Blomstrom, Magnus; Kokko, Ari - 2021
This paper examines two broad issues related to foreign investment by Swedish multinationals: first the effects of outward foreign direct investment on domestic investment, exports, and employment, and second, the effects on the domestic economy from the increasing division of labor between the...
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Multinational Firms and Manufactured Exports from Developing Countries
Blomstrom, Magnus; Kravis, Irving B.; Lipsey, Robert E. - 2022
. Multinationals from the United States, Japan and Sweden have all increased their shares of LDC exports of manufactures since the mid …
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Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability
Schick, Andreas - 2010
Taller workers receive a substantial wage premium. Studies extending back to the middle of the last century attribute the premium to non-cognitive abilities, which are associated with stature and rewarded in the labor market. More recent research argues that cognitive abilities explain the...
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The "Austerity Myth" : Gain Without Pain?
Perotti, Roberto - 2011
Eurozone countries today) and two - Finland and Sweden - after floating the currency.All four episodes were associated with an … occurred because the sterling coincidentally appreciated. In Finland and Sweden the currency experienced an extremely large …
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