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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,...
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The dissertation centers on the following key issues. First, what are the impacts of trade liberalization on employment and wages in Vietnamese manufacturing? Second, what determines productivity in Vietnamese manufacturing: the roles of technology and institutions? Third, what are the...
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nature of the effect of multinationals using a Cox proportional hazard model which we estimate using plant level data for … Irish manufacturing industries. Our results show that the presence of multinationals has a life enhancing effect only on … indigenous plants in high tech industries, suggesting the presence of technology spillovers. In contrast, multinationals compete …
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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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the literature. Our results suggest that firms which are run by owners that worked for multinationals in the same industry … firm. We do not find any positive effects on firm level productivity if the owner had experience in multinationals in other … industries, or received training by multinationals. …
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