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The home-employment effect of FDI from developing countries: in the case of China
Liu, Huiqun; Lu, Jinyong - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies 4 (2011) 3, pp. 173-182
Purpose – The current extensive literature on the home-country employment effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) focuses almost exclusively on the investments from developed countries. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the home-country employment effect in China, a country that has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365017
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Service offshoring, Productivity, and Employment; Evidence From the United States
Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768861
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The Real Exchange Rate and Employment in China
Dao, Mai; Chen, Ruo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
We examine the impact of real exchange rate fluctuations on sectoral and regional employment in China from 1980 to 2008. In contrast to theoretical predictions, employment in both the tradable and non-tradable sectors contracts following a real appreciation. Our results are robust across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151232
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Industry, Foreign Trade and Employment in EU Countries; Comparison of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK with the United States
GUISAN, Maria-Carmen - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 11 (2011) 2
Switzerland and the United States. We present some macro-econometric models to quantify the positive effects of industry on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386018
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Firm growth in the course of mergers and acquisitions
Burghardt, Dirk; Helm, Marco - In: Small Business Economics 44 (2015) 4, pp. 889-904
establishments. Based on a unique full sample of manufacturing and services firms in Switzerland, our main finding is that the … establishments in Switzerland. In fact, employment growth decreases with an establishment’s initial size and age—at the aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011241922
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Employment Effects of Ecological Innovations: An Empirical Analysis
Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
different countries (Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Holland and Switzerland) we have obtained the following empirical results …
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