Similar Search Results

Blessing or curse?: Domestic plants' survival and employment prospects after foreign acquisitions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003

This paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner has any effects on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The analysis uses plant level data for the UK electronics and food industries for the period 1980 to 1993. We control for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265570

Blessing or Curse? Domestic Plants' Survival and Employment Prospects after Foreign Acquisitions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763440

Blessing or Curse? Domestic Plants' Survival and Employment Prospects After Foreign Acquisition

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign owner has any effects, positive or negative, on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The empirical analysis uses data from the Annual Respondents Database (ARD) for the UK electronics...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123803

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

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

Local productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment in the UK electronics industry

Girma, Sourafel; Wakelin, Katharine - In: Regional science & urban economics 37 (2007) 3, pp. 399-412

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451595

Regional underdevelopment : is FDI the solution? A semi-parametric analysis

Girma, Sourafel (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001649066

Regional underdevelopment : is FDI the solution? A semiparametric analysis

Girma, Sourafel; Wakelin, Katharine - 2001

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001621662

Regional Underdevelopment: Is FDI the Solution? A Semiparametric Analysis

Girma, Sourafel; Wakelin, Katharine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

productivity realisations. The FDI spillover literature has so far abstracted from the selection problem generated by plant exit … of foreign direct investment on domestic plant’s productivity. The results indicate that positive spillovers exist but …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123998

Organic and acquisitive employment growth : re-examining,testing and extending Penrose's Growth Theory.

Lockett, Andy; Wiklund, Johan; Davidsson, Per; Girma, … - 2011

Edith Penrose’s theory of firm growth postulates that a firm’s current growth rate will be influenced by the adjustment costs of, and changes to a firm’s productive opportunity set arising from, previous growth. Although she explicitly considered the impact of previous organic growth on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438187

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last