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Kose, Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar; Rogoff, Kenneth S; Wei, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent years, but along many disparate channels with a variety of apparently conflicting results. We attempt to provide a unified conceptual framework for organizing this vast and growing...

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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 …

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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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Global Capital Flows and Financing Constraints

Harrison, Ann E.; McMillan, Margaret Mcmillan; Love, Inessa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

Firms often cite financing constraints as one of their primary obstacles to investment. Global capital flows, by bringing in scarce capital, may ease host-country firms' financing constraints. However, if incoming foreign investors borrow heavily from domestic basnks, direct foreign investment...

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