This paper analyzes the determinants and effects of firm-level FDI flows on the basis of German micro-level data …. Concering the determinants of FDI, I differentiate between different target regions and motivations for FDI (market seeking …/horizontal FDI versus cost reducing/vertical FDI). The main result is that most firms engage in FDI because of market access. Further …

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 within the IAB-ReLOC project. By developing a new method for linking … development of firms with Czech affiliates and firms without FDI is compared for the same time periods. The analysis shows that …

Umstrukturierungen als Reaktion auf eine veränderte Arbeitsnachfrage durch FDI. …We use linked employer-employee data to estimate the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on workers' job … stability. We are the first to consider firm-internal job transitions. Specifically, we examine the impact of FDI on the …

Does more FDI make the world a riskier place for workers? We analyze whether an increase in multinational firms …

This paper focuses on the role of classifying types of foreign direct investment (FDI) for analyzing the determinants … investment (VFDI) and horizontal foreign direct investment (HFDI). Apart from data for conventional approaches to classify FDI … to companies without investment abroad. The results for the direct measures of FDI types confirm theoretical expectations …

This paper deals with the measurement of motives for foreign direct investment (FDI). Due to a lack of information …, several indirect measures exist in order to classify multinational firms into the two main types of FDI. While vertical … country and the subsidiary in the target country. The question arises as to how reliable this measure is for identifying FDI …