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FDI and Wages: Evidence from Firm-Level and Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary, 1986-2008
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos; Antal, Gábor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer …-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on pre-acquisition data and controlling for fixed … strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …
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FDI and Wages: Evidence from Firm-Level and Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary, 1986-2008
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos; Antal, Gabor - Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és … - 2012
We estimate the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) acquisitions on firm-average and worker-specific wages using … universal firm-level panel data and linked employer-employee data for Hungary. Our identification strategy exploits a 23 year …), but suggests a strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …
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Do Workers Benefit from Foreign Ownership? Evidence from Swedish Manufacturing
Bandick, Roger - Handelshögskolan, Örebro Universitet - 2004
The paper examines whether foreign-owned firms pay higher wages than domestically owned firms, controlling for a number of firm characteristics. As in most other similar studies I find that this appears to be the case. In particular, skilled labor seems to profit from working in foreign-owned...
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Cross-Country Externalities of Trade and FDI Liberalization
Liu, Qing; Qiu, Larry D. - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 8 (2013) 1, pp. 19-49
We develop a three-country heterogeneous-firm model and show that FDI liberalization in one foreign country (F1 …) results in the following: (i) some firms from the home country switch from export to FDI in F1; (ii) skilled labor¡¯s wage … firms from the home country switch from FDI to export to another foreign country (F2). The effects from trade liberalization …
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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 …
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The Effect of Public Wages on Corporate Compensation in Hungary
Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
I identify wage spillovers from the public to the corporate sector with the help of a large and sudden public sector wage increase, which raised real compensation by 40 percent in two years, changing the average public wage premium from minus 10 to plus 12 percent. Using a dataset covering about...
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Technological spillovers from multinational presence - Towards a conceptual framework
Gachino, Geoffrey - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
This paper undertakes a critical review of existing spillover analyses and proposes a unique analytical framework for examining technological spillovers in a manufacturing industry setting. The proposed framework overlaps three different literature strands; cluster and network dynamics,...
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
supported both foreign and domestic investment for technological catch-up. It is the only country where FDI favoured the … manufacturing sector and manufactured exports, and where domestic investment started becoming increasingly important compared to FDI …
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Ownership Change, Multinationals, and Growth of New Technology-Based Firms
Xiao, Jing - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014
New technology-based firms (NTBFs) are usually restricted by limited ownership and management structures. This paper explores whether acquisition, particularly that by multinational enterprises (MNEs), promotes the growth of NTBFs. Based on micro-level longitudinal data, we construct a large...
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Host-Country Determinants of the Market Strategies of US Companies' Overseas Subsidiaries
Papanastassiou, Marina; Pearce, Robet - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 1 (1994) 2, pp. 199-216
As compeition in many industries becomes increasingly global, MNEs have found that import-substitution subsidiaries, focusing on the supply of national markets, are much less viable. In the pursuit of enhanced competitiveness through export-oriented subsidiaries, MNEs are also finding that...
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