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Cultura postmaterialista y variaciones en el espiritu emprendedor

Pinillos Costa, Maria José - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 17 (2011) 1, pp. 37-55

The aim of this paper is to explore whether postmaterialism explains differences in Total entrepreneurial-activity rates across Spanish Autonomous Communities. A distinction is made between potential entrepreneurs, nascent entrepreneurship, new business formation and Established business, as...

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Missing women in the United Kingdom

Adamou, Adamos; Drakos, Christina; Iyer, Sriya - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

This paper investigates the gender-selection decisions of immigrants in the United Kingdom, using data from the 1971–2006 General Household Survey. We examine sex-selection in the UK among immigrant families and the gender composition of previous births, conditional on socio-economic...

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A VAR analysis of FDI and wages : the Romania's case

Mutascu, Mihai Ioan; Fleischer, Anne-Marie - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 41-56

According to Lall (1997), the FDI are strongly interconnected with a series of variables, such as: economic conditions … (markets, natural resources, competitiveness), host country policies (macro policies, private sector, trade and industry, FDI … studies have shown that the relationship "FDI-Wages" is significant and the two variables have one on one influence. More …

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Impact of FDI on economic development : a causality analysis for Singapore ; 1976 - 2002

Feridun, Mete; Sissoko, Yaya - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 7-17

This study examines the relationship between economic growth as measured by GDP per capita and foreign direct investment for Singapore, using the methodology of Granger causality and vector auto regression (VAR). Evidence shows that there is a unidirectional Granger causation from foreign direct...

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The comparative financial managerial performance of US firms and Chinese firms

Asheghian, Parviz - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 2, pp. 119-135

This paper evaluates the relative financial managerial performance of thirty matched-pairs of US firms and Chinese (CN) firms. In this study, financial managerial performance is measured in terms of profitability, debt management, and asset management. Paired comparison is employed and eight...

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Foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers : evidence from Turkey

Erdogan, Aysa Ipek - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 4, pp. 185-199

This article analyzes the horizontal productivity spillover effects of foreign ownership on Turkish firms that are among the top 500 industrial enterprises in Turkey. Using a panel of 215 firms over the period 2004-2008, we find that domestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from...

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Foreign direct investment effect on urban wages in MENA countries

Asli, Ali Reza Daghighi; Behname, Mehdi; Noormohamadi, … - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 3, pp. 33-39

This paper use the urban set data for studding the FDI impact on average wage level in MENA countries. The results show … that the openness to FDI tends to increase wage level of MENA countries. The positive impact remains significant after …

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Foreign direct investment and urban infrastructure an evidence from Southern Asia

Behname, Mehdi - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 4, pp. 253-259

effect on FDI and the governments in this zone should pay attention in this variable for FDI attracting. -- foreign direct …

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Lower exchange rates and FDI inflows in least developing economies : evidence from Tanzania

Nyamrunda, Godfrey Charles - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 4, pp. 1-12

-run relationship between the exchange rate of Tanzanian shilling, which is on the list of weak currencies in the world, and the net FDI … level of the exchange rate on the settings of the policies that will attract more FDI to flow in their market. -- FDI ; VECM …

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Impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth of Pakistan

Saqib, Najia; Masnoon, Maryam; Rafique, Nabeel - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 1, pp. 35-45

over the period of 1981 till 2010. Besides FDI, four other variables including Debt, Trade, Inflation and Domestic …

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