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Should I stay or should I go? A note on employment protection, domestic anchorage, and FDI
Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Montagna, Catia - 2003
This paper examines how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinationals. Based on a simple theoretical framework, we estimate an empirical model, using OECD-data on bilateral FDI-flows and employment protection indices. We find that, while an ?unfavourable?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265399
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Note on Employment Protection, Domestic Anchorage, and FDI
Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Montagna, Catia - 2021
This paper examines how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinationals. Based on a simple theoretical framework, we estimate an empirical model, using OECD-data on bilateral FDI-flows and employment protection indices. We find that, while an "unfavourable"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319810
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Employment protection and globalisation in dynamic oligopoly
Dewit, Gerda; Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003
-stage game with uncertainty it is demonstrated that location is influenced by both flexibility and strategic concerns. We show … provided uncertainty and foreign direct investment costs are low. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022135
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A Race to the Bottom? Employment Protection and Foreign Direct Investment
Olney, William W. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 2010
A common critique of globalization is that it leads to a race to the bottom. Speci?cally, it is assumed that multinationals invest in countries with lower regulatory standards and that countries competitively undercut each other's standards in order to attract foreign capital. This paper tests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002064
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A Race to the Bottom? Employment Protection and Foreign Direct Investment
Olney, William W. - Economics Department, Williams College - 2010
A common critique of globalization is that it leads to a race to the bottom. SpeciÂ…cally, it is assumed that multinationals invest in countries with lower regulatory standards and that countries competitively undercut each other's standards in order to attract foreign capital. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002070
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The Threshold Effects of Global Economic Uncertainty on Foreign Direct Investment
Lagos, Konstantinos; Wang, Yuan - 2022
This paper investigates the role of global economic uncertainty in Dunning’s investment development path (IDP … countries’ net outward investment (NOI) follows a non-linear pattern even after incorporating global economic uncertainty into … the analysis. At the same time, global economic uncertainty has non-linear effects on NOI subject to the level of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013290911
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Employment Protection and Globalisation in Dynamic Oligopoly
Dewit, Gerda; Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - 2003
-stage game with uncertainty it is demonstrated that location is influenced by both flexibility and strategic concerns. We show … provided uncertainty and foreign direct investment costs are low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084863
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Anti-migration as a threat to internationalization? : a review of the migration-internationalization literature
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018
Does anti-migration sentiment threaten internationalization? One major pro-Brexit argument was that it would enable more control over immigration. The most recent US presidential election also focused on immigration. Anti-migration sentiment could be a threat to internationalization, given that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012163436
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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence
Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018
We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation. Stricter employment protection laws over time in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853748
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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence
Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018
We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation. Stricter employment protection laws in the current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820933