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The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries

Deardorff, Alan V.; Stern, Robert M.; Brown, Drusilla K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

This paper assesses the evidence regarding the effects of multinational production on wages and working conditions in developing countries. It is motivated by recent controversies concerning whether multinational firms in developing countries exploit workers by paying low wages and subjecting...

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Excessive FDI Flows Under Asymmetric Information

Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim; Yuen, Chi-Wa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

are governed by unobservable variables (such as the productivity level which triggers default, according to the firm …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089156

Inappropriate Pooling of Wealthy and Poor Countries in Empirical FDI Studies

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Wang, Miao - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

This paper examines the question of whether less-developed countries' (LDCs') experiences with foreign direct investment (FDI) systematically different from those of developed countries (DCs). We do this by examining three types of empirical FDI studies that typically do not distinguish between...

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Political Economy, Sectoral Shocks, and Border Enforcement

Hanson, Gordon; Splimbergo, Antonio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

In this paper, we examine the correlation between sectoral shocks and border enforcement in the United States. Enforcement of national borders is the main policy instrument the U.S. government uses to combat illegal immigration. The motivation for the exercise is to see whether border...

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Country Portfolios

Kraay, Aart; Loayza, Norman V.; Servén, Luis; Ventura, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

How do countries hold their financial wealth? We construct a new database of countries' claims on capital located at home and abroad, and international borrowing and lending, covering 68 countries from 1966 to 1997. We find that a small amount of capital flows from rich countries to poor...

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Mexican Immigration and Self-Selection: New Evidence from the 2000 Mexican Census

IBARRARAN, PABLO; Lubotsky, Darren - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

We use data from the 2000 Mexican Census to examine how the education and socioeconomic status of Mexican immigrants to the United States compares to that of non-migrants in Mexico. Our primary conclusion is that migrants tend to be less educated than non-migrants. This finding is consistent...

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Does Inward Foreign Direct Investment Boost the Productivity of Domestic Firms?

Haskel, Jonathan E.; Pereira, Sonia C.; Slaughter, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

Are there productivity spillovers from FDI to domestic firms, and, if so, how much should host countries be willing to …

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Public Finance and Individual Preferences over Globalization Strategies

Hanson, Gordon; Scheve, Kenneth F.; Slaughter, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

In the absence of distortionary tax and spending policies, freer immigration and trade for a country would often be supported by similar groups thanks to similar impacts on labor income. But government policies that redistribute income may alter the distributional politics. In particular,...

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Characteristics of Foreign-Owned Firms in British Manufacturing

Griffith, Rachel; Simpson, Helen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

that establishments that are always foreign-owned have significantly higher labour productivity than those that remain … under domestic ownership. In addition, labour productivity improves faster over time and faster with age in foreign …-owned establishments. The difference in labour productivity is matched by an equivalent difference in levels of investment per employee …

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The Formation of International Production and Distribution Networks in East Asia

Kimura, Fukunari; Ando, Mitsuyo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

The international production and distribution networks consist of vertical production chains and distribution networks extended across a number of countries. This paper claims that the international production and distribution networks in East Asia present distinctive characters in their...

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