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Financing Constraints, Firm Dynamics, Export Decisions, and Aggregate Productivity
Caggese, Andrea; Cunat, Vicente - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 16 (2013) 1, pp. 177-193
and exit of the domestic and export markets. We calibrate the model and test some of its predictions using a rich dataset … of Italian manufacturing firms for the period 1995-2003. Financing constraints reduce the aggregate productivity gains …
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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 … productivity, relative wages and relative employment of skilled workers, through conventional pooled OLS. Then, we estimate … results seem to indicate that FDI is associated with higher productivity and an increased demand for skilled labour …
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Remittance Service Providers in the United States : How Remittance Firms Operate and How They Perceive Their Business Environment
Andreassen, Ole E. - 2007
This paper presents the findings of a survey of 73 remittance firms in 6 U.S. states, where company executives were interviewed in person. The paper finds that the largest obstacles to doing business that remittance firms face are related to obtaining bank accounts, licensing and bond...
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What Caused the Recent Surge of FDI into Japan?
Paprzycki, Ralph - 2006
In recent years, foreign direct investment (FDI) in Japan has jumped to unprecedented levels. This paper examines the underlying reasons, looking at both the international factors - the global boom in FDI and mergers amp; acquisitions(Mamp;A) during 1998-2000 - and domestic regulatory,...
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...
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Diasporas and international entrepreneurship – evidence from the Indian IT industry
Varma, Sumati; Bagoria, Mukesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the diaspora as a driver of international entrepreneurship in the context of the Indian IT industry. As an initial exploratory analysis of an emerging phenomenon, it is based on case studies to identify the entrepreneur’s diaspora links as a source of...
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Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia
Chanda, Rupa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are proactively undertaking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651620
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Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia
Chanda, Rupa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are proactively undertaking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651623
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Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia
Chanda, Rupa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are proactively undertaking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651631
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Sorting into Outsourcing: Are Profits Taxed at a Gorilla's Arm's Lenght?
Bauer, Christian J.; Langenmayr, Dominika - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This article analyzes profit taxation according to the arm's length principle in a new model where heterogeneous firms sort into foreign outsourcing. We show that multinational firms are able to shift profits abroad even if they fully comply with the tax code. This is because, in equilibrium,...
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