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Do works councils raise or lower firm productivity? : works councils can have a positive impact on firm productivity, but only when specific conditions are in place
Hübler, Olaf - 2015
on a firm's productivity and what the consequences are for a firm's profits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430237
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Outsourcing, foreign ownership and productivity : evidence from UK establishment level data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438842
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Exports, international investment, and plant performance : evidence from a non-parametric test
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003
This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439152
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How important are agglomeration effects for plant performance? : empirical evidence for Germany
Fuchs, Michaela; Ludewig, Oliver - 2010 - Preliminary version
to influence productivity. To this end we estimate plant-level production functions augmented by regional characteristics …
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International relocation of production plants in MNEs : is the enemy in our camp?
Lampón, Jesús F.; González-Benito, Javier; … - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 94 (2015) 1, pp. 127-139
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011545091
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FDI, intermediate inputs and firm performance : theory and evidence from Italy
Imbruno, Michele; Pittiglio, Rosanna; Reganati, Filippo - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413374
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Neighborhood effects on productivity : a knowledge spillover analysis using geocoded data
Larsson, Johan P. - 2012 - JIBS Friday seminar draft, June, 1st, 2012, Unpublished manuscript
This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250-by-250 meter (about 0.15 miles), 1 km2, 9 km2 and 100 km2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507866
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Types of FDI and determinants of affiliate size : the classification makes the difference
Hecht, Veronika; Moritz, Michael; Noska, Patricia; … - 2016
on the relevance of productivity in the German-Czech FDI relations. We pursue a reference group approach by comparing …. The second stage examines the relationship between productivity and the intensive margin of FDI. We find evidence that … productivity is not only a crucial factor for the decision to invest in the neighboring country, but plays also a relevant role for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523307
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Firm efficiency and input market integration trade versus FDI
Imbruno, Michele - 2015
This paper highlights the crucial role played by international access to intermediate inputs to explain firm-level performance, via two channels simultaneously: trade and FDI. We develop a simple theoretical model showing that trade integration of input market entails an efficiency improvement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374044
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Sectoral productivity and spillover effects of FDI in Latin America
Tondl, Gabriele; Fornero, Jorge - 2010
Empirical studies analysing productivity effects of inward FDI in Latin America (LA) are inconclusive. We argue that … FDI to generate productivity effects differs across sectors. For these reasons and because sectoral FDI intensities vary … significantly among LA countries and change over time, we investigate the productivity effects of FDI in eight different sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374390