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productivity and good access to foreign markets, and might therefore be better at creating jobs than domestic firms are. However …
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This study analyzes the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows on the employment and wages of low- and high-skilled employees in the manufacture and service sectors in Mexico. The study implements a quarterly panel dataset covering the 32 Mexican states from 2005 to 2018. The...
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This paper examines the effect of FDI on employment in the Chinese manufacturing sector. As one of the world's largest recipients of FDI, China has arguably benefited from foreign multinational enterprises in various respects. However, one of the main challenges for China, and other developing...
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productivity and good access to foreign markets, and might therefore be better at creating jobs than domestic firms are. However …
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We exploit an extensive database on more than 32,000 greenfield projects over 2003-2020 to examine how the composition of greenfield FDI inflows into the EBRD regions has changed over time, and what this implies for employment generation, inequality and spatial disparities. Our results suggest...
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This study uses unique division-level data of Japanese firms to examine how foreign direct investment (FDI) affects domestic employment. Contrary to most previous studies focusing on the effect on net employment growth, we decompose it into gross job creation and gross job destruction. We find...
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The aim of this study is to examine the effect of FDI on employment in ECOWAS sub region between 1990 and 2019. The study utilizes a panel autoregressive dis- tributed lag model to analyze the short run and long run relationship between FDI and employment across ECOWAS sub region. In the short...
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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 …
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on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross … in productivity. In the work-sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower … increase in productivity (1.31%). Finally, the full flexibility scenario preserves employment and generates a substantial …
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, productivity and technological progress. This is mostly unquestioned for greenfeld investments, i.e. the case when a foreign … domestic German firms that are subject to a foreign takeover regarding employment and productivity. For this purpose, I use a …. Mostly firms with below average productivity (lemons) as well as firms with a relatively high productivity (cherries) are …
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