The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of foreign direct investments (FDIs) - an inward FDI and an outward FDI - on employment in Korea. In particular, it focuses on whether the effect has been changed after the 2000 and if so, how it has changed.The foreign direct investment is...

This paper investigates the effects of multinational corporations on labor standards. We argue that the previous literature has failed to distinguish the different motives that encourage firms to become multinational. Therefore, we build a stylized model of segmented labor markets with...

This paper investigates the effects of multinational corporations on labor standards. We argue that the previous literature has failed to distinguish the different motives that encourage firms to become multinational. Therefore, we build a stylized model of segmented labor markets with...

We investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade, as two measures of globalization, on female labor force participation in a sample of 80 developing countries over the last decades. Contrary to the mainstream view in the literature, which is mainly based on country-case...

This paper analyzes the implications of effective taxation of labor for profits and, hence, the location decision of a multinational enterprise. We set up a stylized partial equilibrium model and, presuming that worker effort is a function of net wages, assume that a higher employee-borne tax...

This paper aims to analyse the concept of Heavy Work Investment (HWI) by studying the factors determining this phenomenon, as well as its outcomes (both negative and positive). According to the European Directive of 1993, Heavy Work Investment occurs when an individual works more than 48 hours...

This paper examines the consequences of foreign tax holiday participation for U.S. economic activities. Chow, Hoopes, and Maydew (2020) present the first evidence of U.S. multinational companies’ (MNCs) participation in foreign tax holidays and find significant involvement in recent decades....