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case of a protectionist FDI policy in Indonesia that restricts FDI at the product level. Using a yearly census of …-level productivity. Controlling for an extensive set of fixed effects as well as potential political-economy drivers of regulation, we … experienced a substantial loss in productivity that was concentrated in the sectors most dependent on external finance and …
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productivity and wage growth are higher for newly founded MNEs than for national rms. Employment growth is superior before …
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This paper is unique in testing the importance of the foreign ownership definition when estimating productivity … companies. In addition, it moves beyond the standard framework by not only analyzing aggregate productivity spillovers, but also … negative productivity spillovers. Finally, the estimations show that the negative spillovers largely stem from foreign firms (i …
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Using yearly Indonesian labor market data for 2000 to 2015, we investigate the impact of a protectionist foreign direct investment (FDI) policy reform on employment and wages. The so-called negative investment list regulates FDI at the highly granular product level and has been repeatedly...
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, exploiting revisions in Indonesia's highly-granular negative investment list, and spatial variation in the exposure of the …, explaining about one-tenth of the aggregate employment increases observed between 2006 and 2016 in Indonesia. These employment …-to-capital ratio and reduced productivity among regulated firms (which allowed smaller and less productive firms to enter the market …
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patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity … allows us to compare productivity over the entire distribution. Our results show robust support for the prediction from …
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patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity … allows us to compare productivity over the entire distribution. Our results show robust support for the prediction from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297485
This paper seeks to understand how outward foreign direct investment (FDI) affects the productivity of Canadian firms …. We estimate the impact of outward greenfield investment on measures of firm-level productivity using FDI data from … with a difference-in-difference approach, we find that firms that invest abroad tend to see more important productivity …
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productivity performance of firms from a catching-up country (Poland) and a leader economy (Germany). Domestic owned firms are less …, the foreign ownership productivity premium decreases, leading to productivity catching up between foreign and domestic … firms' productivity performance is more stable along the GVC distribution. …
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productivity of FDI-receiving firms and to some extent also that of the other firms due to spillovers. From a host country's point … of view this kind of productivity improvement forms an important contribution to overall growth. The present note uses a …-framework we indeed find significant productivity improving effects of inward FDL Furthermore, there is some evidence that FDI …
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