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Do investments in the Czech Republic lead to employment growth or employment losses in the German firms involved? To address this question, a unique database about German firms with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Czech Republic and firms without FDI in any country has been established...
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). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and … relocate, and this points to self-selection of betterʺ firms into offshoring. This finding is in line with results from recent … others were not. Broadly in line with hypotheses derived from the literature there is no evidence that offshoring has a …
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). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and … relocate, and this points to self-selection of "better" firms into offshoring. This finding is in line with results from recent … others were not. Broadly in line with hypotheses derived from the literature there is no evidence that offshoring has a …
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) can offshore routine tasks to a low-wage host country. The most productive firms self-select into offshoring, and the … impact on welfare in the source country can be positive or negative, depending on the share of firms engaged in offshoring … among entrepreneurs is higher with offshoring than in autarky. All results hold in a model extension with firm-level rent …
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). It turns out that, compared to non-offshoring firms, firms that relocated activities were larger and more productive, and … relocate, and this points to self-selection of "better" firms into offshoring. This finding is in line with results from recent … others were not. Broadly in line with hypotheses derived from the literature there is no evidence that offshoring has a …
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This article studies how social insurance programs shape individual's incentives to take up registered employment and …
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This work offers new insights into the determinants of service offshoring across countries and across service … offshoring costs for all services, while the effects of other characteristics depend on the coordination requirements of the … effects of a membership in NAFTA, and a common colonial past on service offshoring patterns depend on the task content of the …
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We provide indirect empirical evidence of profit shifting behavior by multinational enterprises. This issue is analyzed in an econometric panel study for the years 1995 to 2005 and additionally in a cross-section for 2004 using a large micro database of European subsidiaries of multinationals...
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