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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438842
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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 - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441072
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461743
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Firm heterogeneity, industry characteristics and types of FDI : the case of German FDI in the Czech Republic
Görg, Holger; Mühlen, Henning; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009
In addition to firm and industry characteristics, the heterogeneity of foreign direct investment (FDI) has to be taken into account when analyzing the determinants of outward FDI. We combine two firm-specific datasets on German firms with subsidiaries and joint ventures in the Czech Republic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872043
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439152
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South-South FDI : is it really different?
Görg, Holger; Gold, Robert; Hanley, Aoife; Seric, Adnan - 2017
productivity growth between Northern and Southern FDI, irrespective of how the latter is defined. However, we find that employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658781
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South-South FDI : is it really different?
Gold, Robert; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Seric, Adnan - 2017
productivity growth between Northern and Southern FDI, irrespective of how the latter is defined. We also find that employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820905
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Estimating direct and indirect effects of foreign direct investment on firm productivity in the presence of interactions between firms
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2014
We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the … indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in … in empirical studies examining a direct causal effect of foreign ownership on firm productivity, namely that of no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406836
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Estimating direct and indirect effects of foreign direct investment on firm productivity in the presence of interactions between firms
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2014
We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the … indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in … in empirical studies examining a direct causal effect of foreign ownership on firm productivity, namely that of no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410300
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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; Villar, Lucia Perez - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123766