today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative …-multinational” technology transfer of Spanish firms that were acquired by foreign companies and the second analysing productivity growth rate …

only little known about productivity variations between foreign affiliates of multinational firms. In order to enhance the … characteristics of the countries in which the multinational parent companies are located on the productivity of their affiliates … direct investment ; productivity spillover ; investor country characteristics …

Does more FDI make the world a riskier place for workers? We analyze whether an increase in multinational firms …' activities is associated with an increase in firm-level employment volatility. We use a firm-level dataset for Germany which … that are active in Germany. We decompose the volatility of firms into their reaction and their exposure to aggregate …