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Foreign direct investment, productivity, demand for skilled labour and wage inequality: an analysis for Uruguay
Peluffo, Adriana - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias … - 2013
This work analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on productivity, the demand for skilled labour and … wage inequality of the Uruguayan Manufacturing firms for the period 1997-2005. Firstly, we estimate the effects of FDI on … results seem to indicate that FDI is associated with higher productivity and an increased demand for skilled labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010894973
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Coming and Going: Gains and Losses from Relocations Affecting Hungary
Hunya, Gabor; Sass, Magdolna - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2005
. Then it moves to the evidence provided by data on FDI and FDI-related income flows. The issue of job creation and … destruction is discussed, based on the employment effects of FDI in host countries and on corporate restructuring data in both …. The number of cases in Hungary amounts to one fifth of the registered FDI projects. But the number of jobs transferred is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492723
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The Home Country Employment Effects of Internationalisation - A Literature Review
Kotiranta, Annu; Lundan, Sarianna; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008
This report reviews some of the most recent literature examining the home country employment effects of internationalisation. A brief overview of the history of the internationalisation of Finnish firms is also presented. The general conclusion from the literature is that the absolute employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700398
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HOST COUNTRY IMPACTS OF INWARD FDI: WHY SUCH DIFFERENT ANSWERS?
Lipsey, Robert; Sjöholm, Fredrik - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2004
different questions under the same labels of wages, productivity, or spillovers? We try to answer these questions in two ways …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644821
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Swedish Multinationals and Competition from High- and Low-Wage Locations.
Braconier, H.; Ekholm, K. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
This study uses data on Swedish multinationals to estimate cross elasticities of labour demand in different locations. With a vertical decomposition of the firm's activities, whether there is substitution or complementarity between employment in different parts of the firm will depend on whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639324
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Expansion Abroad and Jobs at Home - Evidence from Japanese Multinational Enterprises
Yamashita, Nobuaki; Fukao, Kyoji - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper examines the exporting job hypothesis that expansion of overseas operations of manufacturing multinational enterprises (MNEs) reduces home employment using data for Japanese MNEs. While the existing studies are mainly based on the industry level data, this paper presents the evidence...
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Multinational firms and job tasks
Hakkala, Katariina Nilsson; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, … - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2009
We analyze the impact of multinational and foreign ownership on the demand for job tasks and educational skills. By using Swedish matched employer-employee data, we find that both foreign and domestic multinational firms have high shares of non-routine tasks and tasks requiring personal...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment: Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden
Blomström, Magnus; Fors, Gunnar; Lipsey, Robert E. - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1997
We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals with that in Swedish firms. U.S. multinationals appear to have allocated some of their more labor intensive operations selling in world markets to affiliates in developing...
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Multinational firms, acquisitions and job tasks
Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, … - In: European Economic Review 66 (2014) C, pp. 248-265
We revisit the question how inward FDI and multinational ownership affect relative labor demand. Motivated by the … and outward FDI have a task upgrading impact on local firms. The effect is primarily driven by wage effects leading to … relative labor demand. Hence, our results suggest a new aspect of the labor market consequences of FDI. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048629
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Foreign Direct Investment and International Business Cycle Comovement
Jansen, W. Jos; Stokman, Ad C.J. - EconWPA - 2004
This paper investigates the relationship between bilateral FDI positions and cross-country business cycle correlations … in the period 1982–2001. We find that countries that have comparatively intensive FDI relations also have more … synchronized business cycles during 1995–2001. Before 1995, we also find a positive association between FDI linkages and output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076717