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Do Immigrants Spur Offshoring? Firm-Level Evidence
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Karpaty, Patrik; Kneller, Richard; … - 2016
Offshoring is an important aspect of firms' internationalization. However, offshoring comes at a cost, especially where information or trust is lacking. Immigrant employees could reduce such offshoring costs through their knowledge of their former home countries and via access to foreign...
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Do Migrants Facilitate Internationalization? A Review of the Literature
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018
How migration relates to internationalization has been a prominent question in international economics for a long time and its relevance for policy has increased with the amplified political focus on migration. But the role of migration for internationalization is not as obvious as the standard...
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The Veblen-Gerschenkron Effect of FDI in Mezzogiorno and East Germany
Urban, Dieter M.; Peri, Giovanni - 2002
or sector, it is their productivity advantage on the local firm to determine the positive effect on domestic productivity … significant and robust Veblen-Gerschenkrion effect. The initial total factor productivity advantage of MNEs on local firm acts as … a stimulus for productivity growth of local firms in the same region. …
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Are foreign owned firms more productive? Evidence from Swedish firm data
Karpaty, Patrik - 2004
This paper analyzes the difference between foreign and domestic ownership of firms with respect to productivity. The …:s. First we show that, other things equal, foreign-owned firms have higher labor productivity as well as total factor … productivity than domestic firms. We also find that Swedish multinational firms are as productive as foreign-owned firms. Then we …
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Industrial specialisation, trade, and labour market dynamics in a multisectoral model of technological progress
Stehrer, Robert - 2001
issue of productivity catching-up, international specialisation and labour market effects in a dynamic multi …. These Schumpeterian features are the impact of transitory rents, emerging from (labour) productivity-enhancing technological … progress or catching- up processes, upon the price-, wage- and quantity system of the trading economies. Relative productivity …
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The development of the German labour market after World War II
Herr, Hansjörg; Ruoff, Bea - 2019
Labour market developments have Germany undergone two shocks: German reunification in the early 1990s, and the Hartz reforms in the early 2000s. They separated the German labour market into the traditional rather corporatist labour market segment, characterised by a high degree of coordination,...
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Off the Waterfront: The Long-run Impact of Technological Change on Dock Workers
El-Sahli, Zouheir; Upward, Richard - 2015
We investigate how individual workers and local labour markets adjust over a long time period to a discrete and plausibly exogenous technological shock, namely the introduction of containerisation in the UK port industry. This technology, which was introduced rapidly between the mid-1960s and...
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Trade Policies and Export growth - employment and poverty impact in Tanzania
Levin, Jörgen; Olin, Mikael - 2008
This report focuses on trade and exchange rate policies in Tanzania. The composition of Tanzanian exports has changed dramatically since early 2000. In examining the determinants of trade with a particular focus on Tanzanian exports, we found that changes in the real exchange rate did not have a...
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The labor market experience and impact of undocumented workers
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam - 2008
Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, the authors find that average wages among documented workers are lower in industries that employ undocumented workers and that a greater share of undocumented workers in those industries further lowers wages. In addition, undocumented workers...
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Immigration, remittances, and business cycles
Mandelman, Federico S.; Zlate, Andrei - 2012
Using data on border enforcement and macroeconomic indicators from the United States and Mexico, we estimate a two-country business cycle model of labor migration and remittances. The model matches the cyclical dynamics of unskilled migration and documents the insurance role of remittances in...
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