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What Role for Property Taxes in Ireland?

Callan, Tim; Keane, Claire; Walsh, John R. - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2009

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Assessing the Impact of Wage Bargaining and Worker Preferences on the Gender Pay Gap in Ireland Using the National Employment Survey 2003

McGuinness, Seamus; Kelly, Elish; O'Connell, Philip J.; … - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2009

This paper assesses the magnitude and nature of the gender pay gap in Ireland using the National Employment Survey 2003 …

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The Distributional Implications of a Carbon Tax in Ireland

Callan, Tim; Lyons, Sean; Scott, Sue; Tol, Richard S. J.; … - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2008

We study the effects of carbon tax and revenue recycling across the income distribution in the Republic of Ireland. In …

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Foreign Direct Investment, Access to Finance, and Innovation Activity in Chinese Enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Gorg, Holger - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …

This paper investigates the link between inward FDI and innovation activity in China, using a very comprehensive and … also find that inward FDI at the sectoral level is positively associated with domestic innovative activity only if firms … inward FDI into technology transfer and FDI affecting domestic credit opportunities and find that the latter is of very …

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Exports, International Investment, and Plant Performance: Evidence from a Non-Parametric Test

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...

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The Effects of Foreign Acquisition on Domestic and Export Markets Dynamics in China

Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …

Using recent data from the Chinese manufacturing industry and the generalised propensity score, this paper establishes economically significant causal effects of foreign acquisition on domestic and export markets dynamics.

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Foreign direct investment, access to finance, and innovation activity in Chinese enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

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Foreign direct investment, spillovers and absorptive capacity: evidence from quantile regressions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2005

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … matters for productivity spillover benefits. We find evidence for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI …

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Outsourcing, Foreign Ownership and Productivity: Evidence from UK Establishment Level Data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper presents an empirical analysis of "outsourcing" using establishment level data for UK manufacturing industries. We analyse an establishment's decision to outsource and the subsequent effects of outsourcing on the establishment's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with...

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Foreign direct investmant, spillovers and absorptive capacity: Evidence from quantile regressions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), … - 2003

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We distinguish the effect of FDI in the same sector and … region from FDI in the same sector but outside the region. We also allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … absorptive capacity and productivity spillovers from FDI in the region, while there is an inverted u-shaped relationship for …

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