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Does foreign direct investment affect wage inequality? : An empirical investigation
Figini, Paolo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2006
We use a panel of more than 100 countries for the period 1980 to 2002 to analyse the relationship between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and wage inequality. We particularly check whether this relationship is non-linear, in line with a theoretical discussion. We find that the effect of...
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Does foreign direct investment affect wage inequality? : An empirical investigation
Figini, Paolo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375979
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Does foreign direct investment affect wage inequality? : an empirical investigation
Figini, Paolo; Görg, Holger - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 34 (2011) 9, pp. 1455-1475
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Multinational companies and wage inequality in the host country: the case of Ireland
Figini, Paolo; Görg, Holger - In: Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv : Zeitschrift des Instituts … 135 (1999) 4, pp. 594-612
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Multinational companies and wage inequality in the host country : the case of Ireland
Figini, Paolo; Görg, Holger - 1998
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Outsourcing, foreign ownership and productivity : evidence from UK establishment level data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …
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Price cost margins and exporting behaviour : evidence from firm level data
Görg, Holger; Warzynski, Frederic - 2003
exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also …
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Exports, international investment, and plant performance : evidence from a non-parametric test
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 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...
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Corruption and productivity : firm-level evidence
De Rosa, Donato; Gooroochurn, Nishaal; Görg, Holger - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 235 (2015) 2, pp. 115-138
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The heterogeneity of FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa : how do the horizontal productivity effects of emerging investors differ from those of traditional players?
Pfeiffer, Birte; Görg, Holger; Pérez-Villar, Lucia - 2015
This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms’ absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …
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