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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566152
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496142
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005432927
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Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-off and Export Market Entry: Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory export and technology transfer requirements imposed on foreign firms have been lifted in a number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265651
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964243
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461465
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Multinationals, Access to Finance and the Exports of Private Firms in China
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …
Using a rich panel data set, we provide a rigorous analysis of the relationship between access to external finance, foreign direct investment and the exports of private enterprises in China. We conclude that, in order to foster the exports of indigenous enterprises, the elimination of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461471
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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital participation is associated with higher innovative activity. Inward FDI … in the sector has a negative effect on innovative activity in SOEs. However, there is a positive effect of FDI on SOEs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123532
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Safeguarding Jobs? Acquisition FDI and Employment Dynamics in U.K. Manufacturing
Girma, Sourafel - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 141 (2005) 1, pp. 165-178
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005390855
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068656