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This paper examines how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinationals. Based on a simple theoretical framework, we estimate an empirical model, using OECD-data on bilateral FDI-flows and employment protection indices. We find that, while an "unfavourable"...
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Scholars argue that multinational corporations tend to locate their investments in countries with lower employment protections to avoid potential future exit costs if an unfavourable event occurs. Yet, empirical results are highly inconsistent. The main objective of this study is to examine the...
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We use micro data on affiliates to Swedish multinational firms (MNEs) to explore the impact of more stringent employment protection legislation (EPL) on foreign direct investment (FDI). We add to the previous literature by exploring the impact of EPL on the extensive as well as intensive margin,...
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We offer new evidence on the real effects of credit shocks in the presence of employment protection regulations by exploiting a unique provision in Spanish labor laws: dismissal rules are less stringent for Spanish firms with fewer than 50 employees, lowering the cost of hiring new workers....
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We offer new evidence on the real effects of credit shocks in the presence of employment protection regulations by exploiting a unique provision in Spanish labor laws: dismissal rules are less stringent for Spanish firms with fewer than 50 employees, lowering the cost of hiring new workers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915079
Can a temporary negative shock generate long-lasting effects on economic activities? To show causal evidence, we utilize data from Japanese multinational corporations (MNCs) and explore the economic impact of the unexpected escalation of an island dispute between China and Japan in 2012. Our...
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of data is an increasingly important source of uncertainty about the state of the economy and offer an alternative … channel of uncertainty - data uncertainty. This paper adds on the uncertainty literature and focuses on data uncertainty …, which originates in the revision structure of data. We find that apart from the general and economic policy uncertainty, the …
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of data is an important source of uncertainty about the state of the economy. This paper evaluates the quality of major … growing data uncertainty over the past decade for Euro area variables. As a robustness check, we reckon our results using US … data and additionally show that uncertainty calculations are robust towards changes in final revision definition. Moreover …
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This paper investigates the effects of uncertainty on the macro economy by replicating its micro effects on individual … the two scenarios through the empirical macroeconomic uncertainty index. The higher the macroeconomic uncertainty is, the … appropriate level of ambiguity aversion outperforms the benchmark model with no uncertainty in fitting the US output growth rate …
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In this paper we investigate transmission and spillovers of local and foreign economic policy uncertainty shocks to … addition to local effects we find foreign uncertainty shocks influence the Euro area but not the US unemployment. Moreover we … document weaker spillovers of both local and foreign uncertainty shocks in the more volatile times. …
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