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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 …

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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018

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Does the Impact of Employment Protection Legislation on FDI Differ by Skill-Intensity of Sectors? An Empirical Investigation

Bellak, Christian - 2009

In line with previous literature this paper finds that strict employment protection legislation has a negative impact on the volume of inward Foreign Direct Investment. Rigid labor markets result in high adjustment and exit costs which deter foreign investments. We also find that the deterrent...

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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 …

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Employment Protection and FDI Revisited : New Evidence from Micro Data

Norback, Pehr-Johan; Skedinger, Per; Duanmu, Jing-Lin - 2019

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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Regional distribution of German-Czech multinationals on the domestic market

Schäffler, 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...

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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...

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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...

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Information technology and global sourcing

Fromenteau, Philippe - 2016

South. Offshoring to South however is subject to costly communication reflected by partially incomplete contracting. More …

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Multinational location decisions and the impact on labour markets

Gaston, Noel G.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2001

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