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This paper investigates the effects of domestic privatisation or foreign acquisition of Chinese State Owned Enterprises … that domestic privatisation leads to contemporaneous reductions in employment growth compared to firms that did not undergo … post acquisition period than non-acquired SOEs. -- Privatisation ; foreign acquisition ; employment growth ; difference-in-differences …
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This paper investigates the effects of domestic privatisation or foreign acquisition of Chinese State Owned Enterprises … that domestic privatisation leads to contemporaneous reductions in employment growth compared to firms that did not undergo …
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This paper investigates the relationship between government support for R&D and R&D expenditure financed privately by firms using a comprehensive plant level data set for the manufacturing sector in the Republic of Ireland. Our empirical strategy combines a non-parametric matching procedure with...
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provide an explanation for the increase in relative wages of skilled workers in Ghana. Estimates of a skilled worker relative … machinery is found to be indeed consistent with skill-biased technological change in Ghana. …
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While foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers, the causes of this remain unresolved. In a two-period bargaining framework we show that if training is more productive and specific in foreign firms,...
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Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a number of studies have documented and some attempted to explain this stylized fact, the issue...
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While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which...
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While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which...
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