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The paper investigates the impact of exchange rates on US foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to a sample of 16 emerging market countries using annual panel data for the period 1990-2002. Three separate exchange rate effects are considered: the value of the local currency (a cheaper currency...
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This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant leveldata for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants andtheir complete grant history...
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This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth atthe plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals anddomestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case ofeconomic slowdown in Chile as...
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in the early 1990s. This positive effect, however, is fully captured by productivity, once controlling for TFP in our … in the early 1990s. This positive effect, however, is fully captured by productivity, once controlling for TFP in our …
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in the early 1990s. This positive effect, however, is fully captured by productivity, once controlling for TFP in our …
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'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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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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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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