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Multinational Firms and Job Tasks
Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, … - 2008
We use Swedish matched employer-employee data to analyze the impact of multinational activity and foreign acquisitions on the relative demand for different job tasks. We contribute to the literature by using a conceptualization from the recent literature in international economics and define the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320259
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Cross-Border Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Elasticities
Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2007
The growing number of cross-border acquisitions has in many countries raised concerns about labor demand consequences. In this study, we use detailed firm level data to examine how increased internationalization and multinational activity affect the volatility of employment, or rather, the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320149
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Locating foreign affiliates in Germany: The case of Swedish MNEs
Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina - 2001
This paper uses a dataset on the foreign activities by Swedish manufacturing firms to examine the performance of German affiliates compared with affiliates in other locations. It is found that German affiliates, on average, have higher labour productivity, R&D expenditure per employee and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295592
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Volatile multinationals? Evidence from the labor demand of German firms
Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2007
Does more FDI make the world a riskier place for workers? We analyze whether an increase in multinational firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295859
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Financial Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment
Forssbæk, Jens; Oxelheim, Lars - 2008
We argue that mainstream FDI theory underplays financial motivations for interna-tional investment, and suggest several … possible channels for a distinct cost-of-capital effect on FDI. Using a sample of European firms' cross-border acquisitions …, and controlling for traditional firm-level determinants of FDI, we find strong evidence in favor of a cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320048
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Finance-specific Factors as Drivers of Cross-border Investment: An OLI Perspective
Forssbaeck, Jens; Oxelheim, Lars - 2008
-financial firms' international acquisitions. Controlling for traditional firm- and target-country-specific FDI determinants within an …-border investment. We conclude that without explicit consideration of the financial dimension, firms' FDI decisions cannot be properly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320378
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Reconsidering the Choice between Takeover and Greenfield Operations
Andersson, Thomas; Arvidsson, Niklas; Svensson, Roger - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334969
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Should R&D Champions be Protected from Foreign Takeovers?
Bertrand, Olivier; Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina; … - 2008
We analyze how the entry mode of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) affects affiliate R&D activities. Using unique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320220
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The growth of low skill service jobs and the polarization of the US labor market
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2012
We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291446
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Foreign-owned Firms in the German Labour Market
Keller, Dietmar; Jungnickel, Rolf - 2003
Compared to other Western European countries, Germany was less successful in attracting FDI in the 1990s. The falling … behind in inward-FDI should be no problem if foreign-owned firms (FoFs) were only substitutes for indigenous firms. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296830