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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence
Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018
that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation …. Stricter employment protection laws in the current production location discourage firms' relocation abroad. While larger, more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820933
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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence
Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018
that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation …. Stricter employment protection laws in the current production location discourage firms' relocation abroad. While larger, more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803022
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Escaping to the east? : relocation of business activities to and from Hungary, 2003 - 2011
Hunya, Magdolna Sass-Gábor - 2014
While the increased frequency of relocation of productive capacities to lower wage countries from developed economies … relocation have been widely neglected. Hungary, together with other new EU member countries, is one of the net beneficiary … countries of relocation especially from the developed EU-15 countries. Macro-data can be used only to a limited extent to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252180
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Regional distribution of German-Czech multinationals on the domestic market
Schaeffler, Johannes; Moritz, Michael - 2012 - Preliminary version
This article deals with the domestic location of German multinational firms which have affiliates in the Czech Republic. Due to the common border the Czech Republic represents an attractive target country for both vertical and horizontal direct investments. In the year 2009 the sum of direct and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515010
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FDI and onshore employment dynamics
Koerner, Konstantin; Moritz, Michael; Schäffler, Johannes - 2021
In this paper, we revisit questions about the onshore employment effects of firms that conduct foreign direct investment (FDI) in countries with substantially lower average wages. Our results derive from the use of rich administrative records on the universe of employees in German multinational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519589
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Multinational location decisions and the impact on labour markets
Gaston, Noel G.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001582219
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Multinational location decisions and the impact on labour markets
Gaston, Noel G.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2001
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown far more rapidly than trade during the last two decades. As with the other prominent features of globalisation, FDI is controversial. The impact of FDI on labour markets has been of growing concern, particularly, for source countries. The deterioration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577912
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The Location of Multinationals in Industrial Districts : Knowledge Transfer in Biomedicals
Biggiero, Lucio - 2014
-step process: first joint venture and then acquisition. This perspective is consistent with the evolutionary theory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014041350
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Regulation, red tape and location choices of top R&D investors
Ciriaci, Daria; Grassano, Nicola; Vezzani, Antonio - 2016
This paper investigates how product and labour market regulations and red tape affect the way in which top corporate research and development (R&D) investors worldwide organise their cross-border operations. The decision about where a company locates its international subsidiaries is modelled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011983823
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German FDI in the Czech Republic : employment effects in the home country
Schäffler, Johannes; Moritz, Michael - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795276