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Japan's Integration into the World Economy in the 1990s

Kleinert, Jörn - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 4, pp. 475-488

In dieser Untersuchung werden Indikatoren wie Offenheit, die Intensität des Intra-industriellen Handels, Feldstein-Horioka-Koeffizienten, grenzüberschreitende Flüsse von Lizenzzahlungen und Anteile der Produktion der Unternehmen eines Landes im Ausland herangezogen, um die Integration Japans...

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Corporate Governance and Merger and Acquisition Foreign Direct Investment: Firm-level Evidence from Japanese Foreign Direct Investment into the US

Alba, Joseph D.; Park, Donghyun; Wang, Peiming - 2009

-border variant of M&A, stronger corporate governance may also reduce M&A FDI. Hence, we use firm-level evidence from Japanese FDI … into the United States to investigate the effect of US corporate governance on Japanese M&A FDI. Our results indicate that … significantly to the sharp decline in Japanese M&A FDI in the US during the 1990s. Our evidence lends some support to the notion …

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Determinants of Different Modes of FDI: Firm-Level Evidence from Japanese FDI into the United States

Alba, Joseph D.; Park, Donghyun; Wang, Peiming - 2010

stylized two-stage investment process. First, we look at the probability of whether a Japanese firm is willing to undertake FDI …

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Corporate Governance and Foreign Direct Investment

Alba, Joseph D.; Park, Donghyun; Wang, Peiming - 2010

(US) on Japanese M&A and non-M&A FDI inflows. In doing so, we expand upon Alba, Park, and Wang (2009), which looked only … Japanese M&A and non-M&A FDI into the US during the 1990s. The regulations apparently encouraged US firms to improve their …

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Research on labour market impacts of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program

Cardoso, Miguel; Haan, Michael; Lombardo, Federico; … - 2023

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Economic impact of Hafnarhólmi Bird Colony in Borgarfjörður Eystri

2019

The tourism boom that started in 2011 shortly after the Eyjafjallajökull eruption has changed Iceland in many ways. Economically tourism has quickly become the country's main export sector. Livelihoods and communities have changed with the influx of foreign tourists and workers. Tourism has...

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Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes

Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022

Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in employment at the consolidated firm and a 2.6% drop in total labor income. These effects are persistent...

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Parental labour market instability and children's mental health during the pandemic

Cattan, Sarah; Farquharson, Christine; Krutikova, Sonya; … - 2023

Childhood is a critical period for development of mental health: episodes of mental illness during this time often recur in adulthood but early intervention can be highly effective at reducing this persistence. Understanding determinants of child mental health is therefore key for the design of...

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The minimum wage, turnover, and the shape of the wage distribution

Brochu, Pierre; Green, David A.; Lemieux, Thomas; … - 2023

This paper proposes an empirical approach to decompose the distributional effects of minimum wages into effects for workers moving out of employment, workers moving into employment, and workers continuing in employment. We estimate the effects of the minimum wage on the hazard rate for wages,...

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Sharing the pain? Credit supply and real effects of bank bail-ins

Lopes, Samuel da Rocha; Beck, Thorsten; Silva, André F. - 2018

We analyze the credit supply and real sector effects of bank bail-ins by exploiting the unexpected failure of a major Portuguese bank and subsequent resolution. Using a matched firm-bank dataset on credit exposures and interest rates, we show that while banks more exposed to the bail-in...

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