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We investigate the link between migration and inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in narrow geographies and adopt a … MNE experience in Italy and the type of business activity carried out by the MNE as the most significant ones. The effect … of immigrants is stronger for firms investing in Italy for the first time and for investments that rely more on …
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We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI - provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential …
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We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential …
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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The empirical studies reviewed in this paper indicate a positive and statistically … significant relationship between international migration and FDI. …
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This paper analyses the link between FDI inflows and migration waves from developing countries. In addition, it … investigates mechanisms through which this link works. Empirical results indicate that FDI can be seen as substitutes of migration … effect) between FDI and migration flows takes place. In longitudinal analysis results indicate that the complementarity …
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It is well established in the literature that foreign affiliates are subject to a series of governance and assimilation costs that deteriorate their performance. This is particularly relevant for firms which have been recently acquired by foreign investors. We employ the variation in civic...
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The present paper aims to test the impact of incoming Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on local wages in the Italian …
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The paper stresses how Italian and Chinese SMEs internationalize according to different approaches. Indeed, in the former case firms may move abroad because they follow the so-called lead firms, that act as a meta-national body, whereas in the latter case SMEs are committed to exports and/or...
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